adviser firms
Regulation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will now be publishing details of warning notices against firms and individuals before it issues enforcement proceedings against them. But in what circumstances will it name and shame individuals?
16 October 2013
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Critical Illness
A couple is pursuing national IFA firms Positive Solutions and 2plan Wealth Management for what they claim was negligent advice to invest in high risk unregulated investments - including using money they had received from a critical illness (CI) payout....
11 October 2013
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Regulation
Despite fears that consumers would be unwilling to pay for financial advice post the retail distribution review (RDR), AXA's latest Big Money Index has found that one in four consumers are willing to pay for financial advice, the same number as pre-RDR....
09 October 2013
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Insurer
Advisers could actually be confusing clients in the post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) world as their pursuit to find ‘right product' gives customers too many options, delegates heard.
02 October 2013
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Individual Protection
Direct Life has launched Quote+, which it has described as ‘the most significant advance' in pre-screening underwriting criteria, with the potential for a 10% increase in completed term insurance business for advisers.
02 October 2013
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Regulation
Over half of advisers (53%) have found the transition to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) either smooth or very smooth, according to new research from Zurich.
19 September 2013
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Individual Protection
New exhibition the Financial Services Expo has added protection and specialist lending-focused seminars to its two-day event.
16 September 2013
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Regulation
An adviser has hit out about the lack of understanding surrounding the value of advice post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR), claiming that the regulator should have done more to inform people.
13 September 2013
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Regulation
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has exacerbated a polarisation of the advisory market, with an almost even split of firms forecasting growth and those predicting static or declining revenues over the next three years, research has suggested.
12 September 2013
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Regulation
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) threw out two-thirds of gripes against the most complained-about advisory groups in the first half of 2013, figures show.
03 September 2013
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