FSA

BDO director of risk and regulation Alex Ellerton wonders whether the FSA wants trail commission to cease on a fund switch.

A former financial adviser has been jailed for conning a grandmother out of £150,000 after he was dismissed from his role as a senior financial adviser.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has not used mystery shoppers for at least 18 months, despite a promise from Hector Sants that the regulator would make more use of the tactic.

The Financial Services Authority has charged a 42-year-old with eight counts of insider dealing and two counts of money laundering.

The FSA has extended its investigation into advisers who sold Arch Cru funds to include inherited or acquired clients.

It's a call some advisers might be dreading and, for many firms, it could compound the challenges they already face in 2012.

Ian Parker, partner at IFA firm Parker Kelly, explains the makeup of a possible structured product investor.

With less than a year to go until it is banned outright, almost a fifth of advisory firms remain entirely reliant on commission, research suggests.

With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...

Ascentric chief Hugo Thorman has called on the platform community to adopt a "unified voice" amid an escalating row between fund supermarket and wrap propositions.