FSA

Consumers are less likely to surrender on some life and pensions products if they were sold to them by an IFA, data collected by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) suggests.

DEADLY SINS

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has uncovered evidence of incompetency among investment advisers at a number of banks and building societies - resulting in unsuitable advice in some cases - following a mystery-shopping exercise.

TCF

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to make clear that venture capital trusts (VCTs) and real estate investment trusts (REITs) will not be included in a forthcoming ban on the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to most...

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined UBS £9.45m for failures in the sale of the AIG Enhanced Variable Rate fund.

The High Court has ruled two men and their two firms, Asset Land Investments and Asset L.I., ran a £15m illegal land bank by operating a collective investment scheme without Financial Services Authority (FSA) authorisation.

Pension investors in the failed Connaught Series 1 fund are being urged to take part in a TV programme to highlight their plight.

Regulators have joined forces to raise awareness of pension liberation "predators" who target cash-strapped workers promising to release their pension as a loan or lump sum.

The FSA's proposed SIPP capital adequacy measures risk causing consumer detriment according to the Association of Member Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS).