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Our Industry Commentator with his top news links each week.
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25 November 2018
Brexit has not been far from the front pages, but not often in big debate about advisers. The PFS’s chief executive Keith Richards says it has come at a terrible time for financial advisers because it has distracted civil servants from the Financial Advice Market Review. This might have delivered significant changes but it may not when driven by the FCA alone. Much of this is because the Treasury remain distracted by Brexit.
18 November 2018
Could this prove to be a hugely important development in getting people to think about their pension savings?
11 November 2018
One of the most interesting debates within financial advice is whether the FCA reforms around transfers are fit for purpose.
04 November 2018
It feels as if the advice sector and the the Sipp sector is to be dogged by problems till kingdom come. Alongside issues with transfers, unregulated collective investment schemes continue to arrive before the FOS. It looks like some of the judgments now have legal backing and some might argue finally – properly FCA attention.
28 October 2018
Are we soon to live in a land of the advice giants and will the smaller adviser firms be happy about it?
21 October 2018
Big changes are planned at the FOS but it may be bad news for smaller IFAs.
14 October 2018
Advisers are finally getting to see what the Brexit regulatory regime looks like and, for now, the bad news is that it doesn’t look that different. There are certainly no MiFID or PROD concessions.
07 October 2018
The FCA has decided not to ban contingent charging on DB schemes meriting, among other things, a Money Box debate on the issue. But there are other parts to the paper
30 September 2018
It looks like the gradual clampdown on pension allownances is bringing more money into government coffers.
23 September 2018
The Pension Regulator wants a chief executive with a thick skin – or in other words this person must be prepared to be hauled over the coals by MPs as happened to the previous incumbent Lesley Titcomb. Quite a few people think she was treated rather unfairly. It is a tough job and one that can only get more difficult as TPR gets more powerful.
16 September 2018
Lots of the trade websites have taken a look at the anniversary of the financial crisis – if you date it to Lehmans and not to Northern Rock at least.
09 September 2018
While the limelight-hogging politicians such as Boris Johnson, Chuka Umunna and John McDonnell bicker, it is arguably Chancellor Philip Hammond whom advisers should be keeping an eye on.
03 September 2018
It’s been a long hot summer and one adviser’s thoughts have turned to just how many funds he needs to offer within his investment solution.
12 August 2018
Lee Robertson steps down as chief executive of Investment Quorum following a buyout by the rest of the management team. He continues as a consultant to the business while looking forward to pastures new.
05 August 2018
The FSCS says it is going to secure the return the vast majority of assets to investors in Beaufort Securities after a plan to compensate clients was agreed. IFAs, who remember the Towry rescue, will still be watching rather nervously.
30 July 2018
It must feel almost as if not a week can go by without someone calling for higher rate tax relief on pensions to be scrapped. 0
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