Alan Lakey

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Adviser Alliance has donated £500 towards a judicial review into the FSCS Keydata levy - even though the lobby group thinks the legal action has little chance of success.

Adviser Alliance will lobby the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to take up the anti-RDR cause on competition grounds.

Alan Lakey of Highclere Financial Services thinks the FSA's 30-month qualification deadline adds further pressure to an industry already weighed down by excessive regulation.

Total and permanent disability (TPD) could soon be re-named irreversible life-changing disability if proposals from the Association of British Insurers are accepted.

Anti-RDR group Adviser Alliance has recruited European Member of Parliament Godfrey Bloom to its ranks as it holds out hope the EU could overturn UK regulations.

The judicial review into the additional £80m levy for intermediaries has little chance of succeeding because the FSCS's decision - whilst smacking of unfairness - is technically legal, says Adviser Alliance.

Adviser Alliance's mission to defeat what it sees as damaging RDR regulations is gathering political support - including that of the shadow minister for constitutional affairs and justice.

The RDR, in its current guise, will likely lead to both a drop in adviser numbers and product purchases, according to recently-formed lobby group Adviser Alliance. So it has put together its own, alternative, RDR...

Independence remains "a good term", an IFA says, but ongoing debate about what defines an ‘independent' practitioner could render it meaningless.