Adviser / Broking

The CII has added a level-4 protection module to its Cert CII (Health and Protection) qualification.

Regulator bans IFAs permissions

Companies are not doing enough to question advisers on how exactly they meet requirements for appropriate and cost-effective advice, a benefits and actuarial firm has claimed.

Hundreds of financial advisers who left client-facing duties at the end of last year due to new regulatory rules now appear to be returning to the industry, according to the Personal Finance Society (PFS).

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has increased its restricted advice proposition with the addition of individual and corporate private medical insurance (PMI) products from Aviva and PruHealth.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said it fears innocent advisers would be disadvantaged and their names not cleared sufficiently under new proposals by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about publishing warning notices....

Aegon UK has launched its online simplified life protection offering, Simply Life.

Founder of Meaningful Money Pete Matthews is to launch a subscription community site for advisers looking to make better use of social media and improve their online marketing.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is reviewing the existing standards and eligibility criteria for corporate chartered titles (CCT) to ensure they continue to underpin customers' expectations of a chartered firm.

The emergence of a profits-before-ethics culture in financial services skewed employees' view of the industry's purpose and prevented them from challenging immoral behaviour, the Financial Conduct Authority's enforcement boss has said.