RDR

Aviva's Dean Lamble reveals some surprising results from the insurer's most recent Hot Issues Tracker adviser survey.

The FSA has raised concerns over the implementation of key European directives including MiFID and the proposed regime for packaged retail investment products (PRIPs).

Four advisers explain why they attended Morgan Stanley's bespoke educational training sessions about structured products.

The FSA yesterday put out its latest thinking on plans to intervene earlier in the product value chain.

Up to 11 million additional people could seek financial advice if the aims of the retail distribution review (RDR) are explained to them properly, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) estimates.

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has called for an independent review into the collapse of Keydata and other investment firms and said the scale of recent failures has not been seen since the Barlow Clowes scandal of the 1980s.

Financial recruitment consultancy BWD has launched an E-learning initiative designed to provide a fast-track route to Level 4 and "engage" advisers turned off by "dull" RO1 course material.

An adviser's independence is "fourth or fifth" on a consumer's priority list, an IFA has argued, after research suggested some clients still have no idea if their IFA is whole-of-market.

The discretionary fund management arena has become over populated of late and this trend is likely to continue in the run up to the Retail Distribution Review.

If you asked a few years ago for opinions on UK life companies, the responses would have been predictable and familiar.