Opinion
Your profession
News Barclays is to close its financial planning arm should be seen as a major opportunity for IFAs to attract clients who can no longer rely on their bank for advice.
26 January 2011
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Your profession
The recent discussion paper on product intervention is basically a 75-page confession by the FSA of its many failings in the retail market.
25 January 2011
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RDR
The Plain English Campaign (PEC) has been fighting gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information since 1979. Judging by last week's RDR professionalism paper it still has work to do at the FSA.
24 January 2011
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Structured Products
Like most people involved in financial services over the past 15 years or so, it would be fair to say that I had become somewhat cynical of industry award ceremonies and the manner in which awards were accredited to the winners.
21 January 2011
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Your profession
Another year and yet another guide on how to encourage retirees to shop around before buying an annuity.
20 January 2011
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Regulation
Firms have not changed the way they assess clients’ suitability in 20 years, but new guidance from the FSA pulls no punches, writes Bob Freeman, vice-president of Voyant UK
20 January 2011
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Individual Protection
Paul Hudson, CEO of Cirencester Friendly, welcomes recent FSA proposals to exempt certain Holloway-style protection products from the RDR's fee-charging and professionalism rules, but insists there is still work to be done.
20 January 2011
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Your profession
Barclays tore up every TCF rule in the book to flog the two Aviva funds linked to today's record-breaking FSA fine. But shockingly, this is not an isolated case of negligent advice from major financial institutions and the big question is who will be next in the firing line?
18 January 2011
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