Three things we learned this week

IFA forces unregulated pension provider to retract false claim An unregulated property-based pension company has retracted false claims to be Financial Services Authority (FSA) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) approved after an IFA complained to regulators. Hove-based IFA Philip Wise wrote to the FSA, HMRC, and the Advertising Standards Authority after receiving a marketing email from Intelligent Investments last Thursday which said the company was approved by the regulators. The company, which offers investment opportunities in the US, UK and Caribbean, originally stated: "This inve...