CII

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.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and Cass Business School are launching a competition to win an MSc scholarship worth £13,500.

Lighter touch regulation is creating an opportunity for the financial services industry but professional standards are needed to support it, according to Peter Hales, president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).

Single premium payment protection insurance policies are bad value and should be outlawed as part of a clean up of the PPI industry, according to the British Insurance Broker's Association (BIBA).