Parents of children with Child Trust Funds (CTF) will continue to be blocked from transferring into a Junior ISA, the government has confirmed.
With less than a year before the ECJ ruling on gender discrimination comes into effect, there is still confusion as to how insurers should respond, according to specialists.
The protection industry may have to change the way it works if it is to maximise the potential of the simple products initiative, the project's leader has said.
More than £70m has so far been paid out to some 95,000 individual policyholders in Equitable Life, according to a progress report from the Treasury.
The FSA has temporarily shut the sale and rent back (SRB) market after a review found most transactions were either unaffordable or unsuitable and should not have been sold at all.
A campaign designed to tackle what it sees as opaque charging structures in the UK investment management industry was launched today by boutique wealth manager SCM Private.
Advisers have given the Treasury's simple products initiative a tentative thumbs up while recognising that the financial services industry is overly complicated.
The Treasury Select Committee has criticised proposals by the Bank of England to increase accountability, saying they fall "well short" of what is needed.
AIFA has appointed Chris Hannant as policy director, replacing Andrew Strange who left in August.