Early RDR hiccups revisited: Have things improved?

QUANTUM LEAP

Laura Miller
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In March, three months into the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), IFAonline.co.uk spoke to four advisers with gripes about how the new rules had affected them day-to-day. As the year draws to a close, we went back to ask them: have things improved?

Most advisers' concerns centred around adviser charge facilitation and the actions of under-pressure life companies to maintain business. See the original article (complete with original gripes) here. But how have things fared in the second half of 2013? Ruth Whitehead Associates principal Ruth Whitehead "Things have gradually improved over time. People are feeling their way forward. "My problem is with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). FCA papers need to be written in plain English. The written documents are dense and difficult. "I spend most of my time translating the r...

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