financial capability

The FSA's latest outlook on systemic risks facing the industry focuses heavily on the role of intermediaries and intermediation processes as an area to keep under control.

Plans to provide national generic advice to boost financial capability will need to be supported by more than the £50m announced earlier this week, suggests Standard Life.

Regulation, recruitment and a lack of trust are the most serious threats to the IFA market, claims new research from Aegon.

The government is planning a pilot project of face-to-face guidance sessions to deliver information on retirement to people over the age of 50.

The Financial Services Authority and Teachers' TV are launching a series of programmes about personal financial education in schools.

Ed Balls MP is calling for a more "comprehensive and preventative" approach to advice through wider access to unregulated or 'generic' financial advice.

Citizens Advice has been awarded grants of £300,000 for financial capability programmes to help more people learn to budget, save and borrow wisely.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is beginning to roll out its financial capability programme in workplaces across the UK.

Compulsory financial education in schools could see an average couple in their late 40s up to £22,000 better off.

Teenage students will receive financial education in schools with the help of an interactive CD Rom package financed by a life insurer and developed by teachers.