UCIS

Alistair Mawdsley, managing director of Connaught Asset Management, explains what the FSA review of unregulated collective investment schemes needs to accomplish.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review its restrictions on the marketing of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors as a result of proposed European rules.

Fiona Murphy asks SIPP providers how the industry can restore adviser confidence in esoteric investments.

Pave Financial Management is to have its permissions cancelled by the FSA following the mis-selling of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), with two of its directors also being punished.

With the average age of EIS investors falling, are more people finally waking up to the products' tax benefits?

A Channel Islands-listed fund which held "substantial" assets with failed broker MF Global UK Limited has ceased trading.

Adviser Philippa Gee has said she has taken on more clients in the last six months who have suffered past mis-selling than she has come across at any time in her 20 year career.

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct a review into the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) early next year.

Advisers with clients invested in life settlement fund EEA have branded the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) rhetoric on traded life policy investments (TPLIs) "reckless" after the fund was forced to close.