RDR

The chairman of the Association of IFAs (AIFA), John Gummer, has called for a three year review of the FSA's treating customers fairly initiative to determine what it has achieved.

Private client seminars will be vital to enhance client value in the post-RDR world, the founder of online adviser forum IFA Life says.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) could give advisers the opportunity to regulate themselves through professional bodies, says Axa.

The FSA has today confirmed Amanda Bowe, head of the Retail Distribution Review, will be speaking at an event for small firms in December.

Membership of a professional body should be mandatory for all financial advisers, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) proposes today.

David Barral, Norwich Union's distribution director, says advisers in firms which are partly or wholly owned by providers should not be called 'independent' in a post RDR world.

Aegon has called on the pensions industry to take account of the distinctive operation of the corporate pensions market when responding to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) has accused the FSA of giving greater weight in the Retail Distribution Review's proposals to bancassurers and product providers.

The FSA chief charged with heading up the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) was today asked to justify why the FSA felt the need to introduce the review in the first place.

Debate on the Retail Distribution Review has been too focused on emotive areas such as independence, while ignoring other proposals in the consultation paper, according to Aegon's head of corporate affairs, Francis McGee.