Paul Stanfield, CEO of FEIFA, outlines the key considerations for advisory firms considering passporting their businesses back into the UK from another EU state.
Standard Life (SL) will review the wording of letters sent directly to investors after advisers complained they were incentivizing clients to drop IFAs.
Discretionary fund manager Saltus has launched a global equity fund in an extension of its IFA-focused offering.
From winning £3,500 for an elderly client in time for Christmas to a spot of career advice, 2011 has again been a year of proud moments for IFAs...
Ian Lowes of structuredproductreview.com matches a portfolio of five SPs against a proxy tracker and says the result provides an interesting perspective on the value of structures
It's been another busy (and in some instances raucous) year in financial services. While it's been a positive 12 months in many respects for advisers, the regulator has again come in for criticism...
Bad news sells. It is a phrase all-too-familiar with journalists who may have heard it from their reader critics, and perhaps from their editors. It's true of course, the phrase. In most cases, a bulletin led by a negative news piece will garner more...
An IFA has claimed Standard Life removed him from his client's policies without instruction.
Standard Life has denied its latest mailout to IFAs' clients is an attempt to sell to them direct.
David Child has taken the helm at one of the country's most ambitious adviser firms. Paul Robertson talks to Lifesearch's new managing director