Sheriar Bradbury

Hints this week the FSA may introduce a form of product regulation - including pre-approving individual products - has sparked debate among advisers.

We are about to part ways when Sheriar says what's really been bugging him...

The looming deadline for implementation of the RDR will have prompted many an adviser to question his or her choice of profession.

You wouldn't hire a barrister to do a conveyancing job yet, in financial planning terms, day in day out, highly qualified financial advisers the length and breadth of the country continue to do just that by carrying out their own account admin.

The origin of the saying ‘united we stand, divided we fall' is variously attributed to Aesop's fable of the Four Oxen and the Lion; John Dickinson's revolutionary war song The Liberty Song, first published in the Boston Gazette in 1768 or, more commonly,...

London-based IFA Bradbury Hamilton has completed the acquisition of the 10,000-strong client bank of a liquidated adviser firm.

Whichever way you dress it up, financial advice in its current form is simply not 'sexy'.

Much has, rightly, been made of the potentially debilitating effect the move to make the diploma the minimum qualification standard might have on scores of otherwise healthy firms.

The implementation of the feedback RDR proposals, which include setting QCA level four qualification as the minimum entry level for investment advisers, has the potential to cause a seismic shift in the advice landscape.

There are many reasons to hold your head high as a financial adviser - helping clients secure their financial future coming top of the list.