RDR

Cofunds head of commercial, Russell Lancaster, says clean share classes represent the ultimate in transparency.

Steve Lowe looks at the potential opportunities for advisers post RDR

East Anglia-based Saffron Building Society has transferred its financial planning subsidiary, Saffron Independent Financial Advisers to Towergate Financial.

Adviser group Tenet has said remaining independent will be near-compulsory for its members.

Offshore bond providers are shifting their new business focus away from jurisdictions such as the Isle of Man and towards European jurisdictions, Epoch Wealth Management has said.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a guide to preparing for the retail distribution review (RDR), ten months before the reforms coming into place.

Given the Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS) desire to see larger caseload contributors paying a greater share of the costs, do you think this heralds a focus on smaller companies well being from regulators?

Paul Avis discusses the benefits and pitfalls for advisers considering the group protection sector.

An FSA promise to re-visit the absence of a time limit on complaints in financial services "seems to have slipped off the radar", according to MP Mark Garnier, who has pledged to take the regulator to task on the issue.

The FSA touted it as the solution to the mass market problem, but will simplified advice be declared dead before it even gets off the ground?