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Quantitative or qualitative research, or a combination of the two? Maria Merricks discovers the best way to decide who controls the destiny of your clients' money.

With RDR implementation now little more than a year away, Chris Davies, author of Winning Client Trust, explains how social science can help advisers profit from the changes.

Saga paid 12 people £13,000 each in compensation after one of its advisers mis-sold them funds within long term care (LTC) plans.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

Advisers and intermediaries on lower incomes are significantly more likely to exit the industry post-RDR than their peers, according to research commissioned by the FSA.

Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), will meet with Occupy London protesters in a private session on Wednesday.

Leeds-based IFA Lampott Ltd must defend a £2m claim for damages at the High Court, after it invested more than a third of a company pension scheme in failed life settlement firm Keydata.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct a review into the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) early next year.

An oft-cited reason for selecting a distributor influenced fund (DIF) over an independent vehicle - that it can mitigate clients' capital gains tax (CGT) liabilities - is not a strong enough standalone reason for recommending it, the FSA has said.

By way of a Christmas present, the FSA and the OFT are consulting on guidance about new post PPI products, such as short-term IP (STIP).