AIFA releases "simplified" handbook for IFAs

A new guide to the FSA Handbook has been released by the Association of Independent Financial Advisers in a bid to help IFAs to understand the complexity of the text. Available from today, the AIFA believes there was a need to produce a shortened version of the FSA Handbook after its technical help-line was swamped with questions about it. AIFA's director of Policy Fay Goddard says: "It became clear to us fairly early on when the new regime was being set up that our member firms were likely to experience difficulties in locating and interpreting the rules and guidance ...