FSA

The FSA is under pressure from advisers to explain how they can become better qualified to recommend unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), and avoid falling foul of the regulator's rules on their use.

In the fourth of a six-part series on preparing for RDR, Bruce Moss, strategy director at Advisa Centa, offers some advice on determining your clients' attitude to risk.

The European Commission's draft Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II would, if implemented, ban platforms from issuing fees to discretionary fund managers (DFMs), which would have to come direct from clients.

The Financial Services Authority and Arch cru investors are caught in a 'Catch 22' deadlock over the release of information about Capita's role in the run up to the funds' suspension.

Treasury Select Committee chairman Andrew Tyrie has called on individual firms to send him details of how much regulation costs them each year, which the committee will use to challenge further rule-making.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has published a list of the investments it is least likely to accept into its pensions.

An IFA whose application to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for re-authorisation was delayed then rejected has had his complaint turned down.

Fidelity International - now Fidelity Worldwide Investment - has called on the FSA to "look at the Australian approach" after its Treasury announced platforms could continue to receive fund manager rebates.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is pressuring the government to increase the compensation liability on firms giving poor advice, a law firm warns.

Nick Anderson, head of compliance and risk at IFA Towry, has made a shock departure from the firm a week after it was fined nearly half a million pounds for misleading the Financial Services Authority (FSA).