FSA

Consultancy charging rules come into force at the end of this year. Jonathan Stapleton assesses the impact they will have on employers offering group personal pension schemes to their workforce.

The estimated value of the remaining assets within the Arch Cru funds has fallen again, reducing the amount of returns to investors being offered by Capita Financial Managers, the authorised corporate director.

Technical specialist at the FSA Rory Percival told advisers that too many firms that had adopted Centralised Investment Propositions (CIPs) were aspirational and "not realistic" when assessing their client banks.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has expressed concerns about the use of distribution deals to circumvent rules banning the payment of commission.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has called on banks and building societies to improve their work to detect and combat investment fraud.

In her regular column addressing the latest regulatory issues affecting multi-asset investors, Rebecca Murphy, director at North Investment Partners, discusses how the definition of value has shifted over time.

REGULATION

Risky, expensive, over-complicated: just some of the accusations leveled at structured products. But are these fair conclusions?

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