RDR

Ashcourt Rowan is restructuring part of its business as it expands across the UK to service clients post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Bromsgrove-based adviser AFH Financial Group has bought two IFA firms to make it up to 12 acquisitions this year.

Origo has launched a new RDR compliant dual-purpose Change of Authority (COA) form, and is set to roll out a signature-less COA process early in the New Year.

AXA Wealth has added investment platform specialist Platforum's platform analysis tool (PAT) to its proposition to back advisers' due diligence process.

Online videos will be the way one adviser plans to set himself apart from his peers in the New Year.

South-east based advisory firm, Foster Denovo, is in talks to recruit 100 advisers following an announcement in October that it plans to grow its staff by 50%.

MONEY IN THE MIDDLE

Ashcourt Rowan has expanded by opening a new office in Sailsbury, Wiltshire.

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

The impact of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will not be felt by many consumers until the middle of next year when they make their half yearly visit to their adviser, potentially building up a bottleneck of discussions about fees, Prudential has...