Lifesearch is seeking fundraising opportunities from life insurance companies to help grow the protection business further.
We've finally reached depolarisation day and the moment when consumers can apparently shop around for the best deal in financial advice. At least that's the theory.
Standards developer Origo is to host more meetings for financial advisers focused on ecommerce in the depolarised world.
Adviser firm Millfield has set up a series of seminars around the country to go over the arguments for and against different business models made possible by the regulatory changes pending through depolarisation.
There have been a handful of responses to today's editorial, looking at the market averages used on the depolarised commission menu.
As the implementation date of depolarisation edges closer, concerns about the credibility of this long-awaited ‘commission menu' are increasing, along with the damage it appears to do to commission-led adviser business.
The Financial Services Authority says market average commissions used in the depolarisation menu will not be altered, despite industry feedback suggesting they are not representative of products' average rates.
The Institute of Financial Planning is launching a series of ongoing fee-based workshops later this year for intermediary firms who want to make the shift away from commission-based remuneration.
IFAs should be able to maintain their independent status under depolarisation and use packaged products from life companies, says the AIFA, despite recent comments from the FSA to the contrary.
Interdependence and the M&E networks have been voted by members to be the best in the IFA sector, ahead of last year's winner Berkeley Independent Advisers.