Miss anything? Yesterday's key stories

Scott Sinclair
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Another day, another FSA paper...

Tuesday 10 May saw the FSA publish further details on how it plan to collect (and use) data from adviser firms from 1 January 2013. Most significantly, it proposes firms break down their revenue from adviser charging in RMAR forms to include how clients paid for the firms' services. The move will help the regulator work out the average adviser charge and, ultimately, to spot any pricing anomalies which may hint at poor practice. However, FSA head of investments policy Peter Smith said the FSA would not use the data it collects to effectively control how much firms charge their clie...

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