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Ageas Protect's Andy Milburn on why the bedrock of true financial planning continues to be left out in the cold.

The head of the FSA's consumer panel, Adam Phillips, caused a bit of a stir this week when he said the FSA's treating customers fairly (TCF) project had failed to protect consumers and called for the introduction of a fiduciary duty on firms to be enforced...

EM currencies look attractive while developing market exchange rates are undervalued

Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, on why RDR is not a panacea for consumer protection

Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer at Rathbone, on why the eurocrats’ words are wearing thin for European investors...

Saffron Building Society's John Eastgate on why direct channels still cannot compete with intermediaries

Jason Hepner, CFA, investment director of global strategy at Standard Life Investments, steps up to our Soapbox

While the headline acts draw the polite crowds at the Institute of Financial Planning's conference, the truth comes out in the Celtic Manor bar and at the Jewel Balti curry house on Chepstow road, Newport.

Steve Payne, managing director, protection, at Friends Life, on a growing trend for ‘working women’ to seek independent advice

In the second of two articles ahead of his upcoming talk at the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) conference, Dan Sullivan discusses what the RDR means for the future of financial advisers