The FSA's latest thinking on RDR

Laura Miller
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The Financial Service Authority's (FSA) evidence to the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) offers a look at the regulator's most up-to-date thinking on the shape of things pre and post-RDR.

The FSA's latest thinking on the RDR. Qualifications No grandfathering, on the grounds a blanket grandfathering process either by age or experience would contravene the Equality Act 2010. No transitional process where advisers would be allowed to continue working under the supervision of an appropriately qualified supervisor, whilst they continued to gain the qualifications. The FSA argued it had already been lenient enough on qualifications, and that a supervisory approach would not work. No "formal plan" for Level 6 as standard, but it is being kept "under review". Commis...

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