The FSA has held secret discussions with stakeholders about delaying the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) for at least one year.
The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) will host a conference designed to guide intermediaries through key business areas usually overlooked in favour of more technical subjects.
The FSA is wrong to suggest there is a lack of trust in financial advisers amongst consumers, says AIFA.
The FSA is not taking the issue of widening access to financial advice seriously enough, according to Aegon.
Fears continue to mount good advisers could be forced out of the industry unnecessarily as a result of new standards proposed in the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), Sesame research suggests.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has launched a Financial Planning Practice paper (J08) to help advisers demonstrate their financial planning capabilities.
I've just read the article on IFAonline discussing the latest Plimsoll research entitled: 'Hundreds of IFAs in trouble as parallel with airlines drawn.'
The demise of factoring is likely to be the biggest problem for adviser firms once the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is fully implemented, industry professionals argue.
The RDR has damaged the confidence of advisers, making them feel that they do not have anything to offer the consumer, according to Positive Solutions chief executive Jim Reeve.
A protection specialist is breaking ranks by arguing a read-across of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) to the insurance market would benefit the sector.