CII

If you want to improve reputation, you need to do reputable things and make sure that your reputation is not owned by someone else who can dictate what people should think of you. That is the philosophy which lies behind the case for a professional body...

Trade associations including the Association of IFAs have joined together to promote positive messages about the financial services industry to consumers.

The Institute of Financial Planning is considering the launch of several initiatives in 2007, claiming interest in its certified financial planner status is still strong.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has unveiled details of its advanced diploma in financial planning, which forms the final element in its new exam framework.

In my blog last month I tried to brew up a storm with my suggestion that neither the public nor the regulator understood the difference between independent financial advice and independent financial sales.

It seems at every turn we are faced with new evidence that the standards of financial adviser are lower than customers have a right to expect. Of course, many of the tests advisers are failing are standards imposed by regulation, rather than what the...

My first year as a journalist on IFAonline has seen an influx of emails from readers expressing their thoughts - or more often their anger - about fees, claims management companies, the FSA and many other issues affecting their business.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has announced Nick Prettejohn, chief executive at Prudential Assurance, UK & Europe, is to join the advisory board of its recently formed Faculty of Life and Pensions.

The Financial Services Authority may yet scrap Key Features Documents next year in favour of consumer ‘Quick Guides', suggest details of the latest MiFID-related document.

Fay Goddard, Stewart Ritchie and Ken Davy are among seven individuals from the financial services industry who have been presented with honorary fellowships to the Chartered Insurance Institute.