FSA

Julie Hepworth, group regulatory manager at Perspective Financial Group, offers tips on how to complete your ‘gap-fill' obligations.

Stephen Hagues, managing director of business brokers Retiring IFA, assesses whether now is the time to sell your firm.

AIFA will propose a split in the FSCS sub-class for investment intermediaries, in a bid to separate out firms where intermediation is only a "secondary activity" and not their main business.

The truly horrifying and calculating way the FSA considers the livelihoods of individual advisers was revealed in its true colours today at the Treasury Select Committee hearing.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has insisted the regulator does not have an agenda against small firms.

FSA bosses have assured MPs they have no current plans to raise qualification requirements above level 4 after the RDR deadline.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has said he did not mean to cause offence when he said it was acceptable for 20% of IFAs to leave the industry due to the RDR, but maintains the exits will not harm consumers.

In the round, levels of capacity and ageism. We go step by step through the TSC's grilling of the FSA on the RDR.

It took a while, but the past six months have seen politicians in Westminster finally take note of RDR and the way it may impact advisers and consumers.

The FSCS has admitted flaws in its funding model in the wake of industry outrage over the interim levy.