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Standard Life CEO David Nish’s comments that the life insurer is keen to start exploring other distribution routes besides advisers, including direct to consumer and via employers, are still sending shock waves through the industry.

Steve Billingham says no two firms will price for their services in exactly the same way after RDR. Nor should they…

Andrew Hagger of Moneynet says if there was ever a time when brokers were needed it is now.

The PFS's plans to publish a ‘plain English' version of the FSA's RDR guidance are to be applauded.

At AT8 we have been following the move towards platforms with interest, particular the networks' strategy.

Telling people you are a journalist can provoke a pretty strong reaction, but we in the media are used to being viewed with some suspicion.

Philip Hunter, manager of the Old Mutual Asian Select fund, examines the topic of East versus West and revisits the decoupling question

Mike Morrison, head of pensions development at Axa Wealth, says the death knell may have been sounded for DB schemes

On the second anniversary of Lehman Brothers' downfall, the investment bank roared back onto the front pages of the business press.

Some view the FSA's 'restricted' label as the new name for tied or multi-tied advice. They're wrong, says Tenet distribution and development director Keith Richards.