IFA

Gartmore is placing its future firmly on the retail investment market and take to the road very soon to tell IFAs about its fresh focus, says one of its new owner executives.

Distribution Technology's newly launched risk profiling tool is intended to fill a gap spotted in the "mass market" as much as meet the needs of advisers with high net worth clients.

Millfield has revealed preliminary takeover talks with an unnamed third party have been terminated.

The latest IFA barometer from Sesame reveals advisers believe the 'revolving door' of ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is adding to the problems in the pensions market.

Millfield has sold its interests in RST Group and RST Audits back to the principal shareholder and managing director of the RST Group.

Initial research and discussions with intermediaries as part of the industry's Adviser E-Enquiry initiative suggest ecommerce is being held back by a particular set of barriers requiring an industry-wide response, a Webline forum has heard.

Notification of a sharp price increase affecting Adviser Office Premier - 1st Software's product for the smallest IFA firms - is drawing stinging comment from some users.

Serving fee-based financial advice to high net worth clients in China via an internet distribution model is one option that should be seriously considered before the decade is out, according to research company dragondata.

A fee-based intermediary is set to lose money from a client who is refusing to pay a £200 fee and threatening to take her to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

IFAs say the decision to give financial planning "chartered" status should help to boost recognition of financial planning as a profession.