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As we count down to May 6, IFAonline collates the best General Election trivia

IFAonline editor Katrina Baugh on voter apathy

Openwork CEO Martin Davis believes regulatory change will separate the winners from the losers

Roland Kitson, director at Barclays Wealth Intermediary Sales, discusses how structured products can provide solutions during the ISA season.

The IFP CEO on bespoke learning models for adviser training

IFAonline editor Katrina Baugh on the FSA’s recent Discussion Paper on platforms.

Even Alistair Darling would have trouble spinning these numbers: Fewer than two million viewers tuned in to watch him debate with Chancellor-in-waiting George Osborne and the Lib Dem's Vince Cable last night. Nine million opted for EastEnders.

The latest instalment of the FSA's RDR proposals was unveiled today, and recommends that, while there is nothing technically wrong with commission, only the purest of the pure advisers should still be allowed to call themselves ‘independent'.

IFAs were in uproar again this week and with good cause. FSA outgoing chief executive Hector Sants and chairman Lord Adair Turner both made speeches about the broken banking sector.

Notes from the Budget: Alistair Darling does it very well. I've sat through many, and he delivers clearly, directly, smoothly.