After months of campaigning, tonight is the eagerly awaited RDR debate in the House of Commons. But should you bother watching?
Transact says the proposed ban on cash rebates could lead to "unintended consequences" and consumer detriment and suggests the issue could be better dealt with through improved disclosure.
OPM Fund Management has been running paper versions of a nine-strong risk-rated model portfolio range, which it hopes to begin rolling out to advisers in the first half of 2011.
MPs have been granted a three-hour slot for a full Parliamentary debate on the RDR.
Harriett Baldwin MP has become the poster child of the IFA community since forcing the first debate on the RDR in Westminister. In an exclusive interview with IFAonline, she gives her views on the FSA, qualifications and that McDonald's comment...
The RDR is 'not all about fees' and older advisers should not use their age as an excuse not to meet new standards, says Informed Choice CEO Nick Bamford in our latest Conjecture debate.
Terry Smith, the City veteran planning to start his own fund group, warns of the “pernicious danger” of adviser inactivity following the RDR.
Protection specialists have welcomed the conclusions on the sale of pure protection released today by the FSA in PS10/13.
The FSA has confirmed group business is exempted from commission disclosure requirements laid out in PS10/13, since it was not the intention of the RDR to bring commercial group risk into its scope.
The PFS's plans to publish a ‘plain English' version of the FSA's RDR guidance are to be applauded.