Professional indemnity insurance (PII) experts have questioned the FSA's view that its redress scheme for Arch Cru investors will have no impact upon the future availability of cover for IFAs.
A law firm has told Arch Cru investors it is unlikely they will end up receiving the entire £110m redress the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is expecting advisers to pay out.
Less than 2% of Arch Cru investors have so far taken a complaint about the advice they received to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), it has been revealed.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it will be on the look-out for firms opting to close down their businesses to avoid paying into a redress scheme for Arch Cru investors.
Advisers may be faced with an extra £33m in Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levies as a result of firm failures caused by a proposed £100m FSA Arch Cru redress scheme.
The vast majority of advisers who risk-rated the Arch Cru funds ranked them as either low, low-to-medium or medium risk investments, FSA figures suggest.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched a three-month consultation on establishing a £100m consumer redress scheme for Arch Cru investors, saying it already has evidence of "widespread mis-selling".