RDR

For any business, regardless of sector, it is always easy to become distracted and lose focus on your key profitable operation. But, for businesses or managers that allow themselves to get severely distracted away from their main business operation, there...

Prudential claims its new investment product is the first in the market to use a factory-gate priced remuneration model.

Short of a plague of locusts (which at this juncture would not come as a real surprise) there is not much more that could hit the financial services industry this summer.

AIFA has released the first in a series of RDR Issues Papers which seeks to clarify the FSA's current position on commission and Consumer Agreed Remuneration (CAR).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is offering small firms free retail distribution review (RDR) consultation sessions to give the regulator their feedback.

A website for IFAs detailing updates, commentary and opinion on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has been launched by Winterthur.

Winterthur has launched a dedicated service on its website to provide updates, commentary and opinion on the FSA's Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Advisers who think their firms may go under following the implementation of the RDR should consider selling now while their firms are good value, according to Clerical Medical head of intermediary strategic planning David Shelton.

Only adviser firms "masquerading" under an independent banner while colluding with life and pension providers have anything to fear from the RDR, says Nucleus Financial Group's David Ferguson.

A two-tier adviser market leaving less well-off consumers more vulnerable to poor advice is possible if proposals in the Retail Distribution Review are given the green light.