RDR

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

Personal Finance Society (PFS) CEO Keith Richards has praised advisers for showing strength and resilience in the wake of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), after Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) figures suggested intermediaries are re-entering the...

Boutique fund managers suffered a marked slowdown in growth ahead of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) as investors flocked to trusted brand names, according to new research from the IMA.

Prudential has boosted operating profits by 22% in the first six months of the year but said UK sales had been hit by the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is concerned about execution-only, or non-advised, sales and the commission payments that such transactions are still allowed to collect.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is concerned about being too retrospective in its approach and said further work needed to be done to improve certainty for regulated firms, board minutes have revealed.

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) recorded a pre-tax surplus of more than £60,000 in 2012, thanks in part to a £22,000 profit achieved by FPSB UK, its qualifications awarding body launched at the beginning of last year.

SimplyBiz has gone live with the second stage of its Vision proposition and launched the Business Compliance Hub.

SPACE INVADERS

St James's Place (SJP) took advantage of a "dislocation" in the advice market caused by regulatory upheaval to grow adviser numbers by more than 6% in the first half of the year, its CEO David Bellamy has said.