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It took George Osborne a little under one hour to deliver his second package of measures as Chancellor today.

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.

Simon Badley, director of intermediary at Aviva, says the industry needs to work together to change the client view of financial advice.

Modest investors who may be priced out of holistic financial advice post-2012 will need less of it anyway as they become auto-enroled into pension schemes, investment manager Vanguard says.

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Next week's highly anticipated parliamentary debate on the RDR should focus on adviser charging, not populist issues like grandfathering, says Yellowtail Financial Planning MD Dennis Hall.

A group of 13 opposition MPs have called on the government to delay switching to the CPI index for public sector pensions until further research has been conducted into pensioner spending.

The date for the House of Commons debate on the RDR has been changed to Monday 29 November following a request from the Labour party.

The level of compensation due to 10,000 Equitable Life customers who bought with-profits annuities before 1992 would be "impossible to calculate", Tory MP Jonathon Evans says.

Alan Lakey has branded yesterday's RDR debate a "travesty" and labelled Mark Hoban a figure of "ridicule" for claiming IFAs are no more qualified than McDonald's workers.