RDR

Simon Chamberlain's new consolidation vehicle Succession Advisory Services has signed up Arden Court Wealth Management to its business model transition scheme.

Seven Investment Management's (7IM's) Justin Urquhart Stewart sparked a mini-row on Friday after declaring the RDR would get rid of the "scum" in the investment advisory arena, during a conference on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) at the London Stock Exchange....

The FSA today told advisers and providers: there is no hope the RDR will not happen.

The FSA has burst a growing bubble of opinion it intends to cut the number of financial advice firms in the UK by "over-regulating" the sector.

Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson is going to sit back and enjoy developments in what is becoming THE place to be in financial services.

The FSA has announced what had seemed inevitable given the pressure on them to maintain high standards of suitability in the face of unprecedented consumer concern.

The move to higher minimum qualification requirements for UK advisers will not stop at Level 4, according to Scotland IFA Affluent Financial Planning.

An investment and protection IFA has logged a petition with Downing Street calling for the disbandment of the current FSA senior management.

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) today issues a stark warning to the FSA over the "unintended consequences" of applying proposals in the RDR to the corporate pensions (GPP) market.

Three years and more than 1,100 days on from Callum McCarthy's infamous Gleneagles speech, in which he set plans for the RDR, the issue still hugely divides the financial services industry.