When will these never ending new costs cease?

More ideas with more costs a nd who the help are these 50+ firms out of 70+ firms who responded in favour of these costs? Before long no one will be left to be able to pay the never ending list of new costs they keep coming up with, almost one new cost every week now.

Posted by: Michael Fallas

bring it on....

I have a hammer and a few nail oh and a coffin, helper wanted please. Without the good will of the IFA community then i fear the ever increasing regulatory cost will serve only to destroy all goodwill....

Posted by: Fraser Brydon - IFA

further costs.

Why dont the FSA take all our income and just pay us pocket money and be done with it. Every new idea they come up with costs us money. Is this another way of excluding most of the general public from independant financial advice by making our charges beyond their reach.The other alternative is to close down the FSA(or its new babies)and just transfer everyone to the banks, who will become their paymasters and as a result will not say boo to a goose to keep their nice paid jobs and gold plated benefits.b

Posted by: terry

Muppets?

In an earlier related article, one reader suggested that the FSA were 'Muppets, the lot of them'. I have to say I think that's very unfair. The Muppets were cleverly thought out, brilliantly inventive, well scripted and sneakily loved by most people. Whereas......

Posted by: Paul Harris

TCF

Nothing like Treating customers FAIRLY, the Fsa should realise we are their customers O well any customers coming into my office will now have to pay a surcharge for the tea and biscuits they get offered !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Barry Davis

WHEN WILL IT END?

Having been unwilling to breakdown their annual £600k+ expenditure, the FSA did apparently concede that £12,000 of this was spent on a 'leaving do'. Just think, if we ALL chipped in another £175 it would pay for leaving dos for all of them. Now that WOULD be money well spent. I don't even mind Hector Santh getting pitthed on my money as long ath he sodth off afterwardth.

Posted by: Keith Jayne

If it wasn't so tragic. . .

I'm becoming more and more convinced that there's an FSA department whose sole function is to dream up wheezes, ruses and schemes to hit IFAs with ever more costs. So, to be qualified isn't enough. To perform and record CPD, as we've been doing for years, isn't enough. Okay, FSA, you've won. After 32 years of looking after clients without a single complaint, I'm going to leave the industry. In a few years time when the FSA (or it's devil progeny)look back and wonder why so few IFAs are left, why so many clients are not receiving independent financial advice, when so many more clients are lodging complaints (against the banks) and the protection and savings gap has widened even further, it will be little comfort to the likes of us to say "I told you so". Utter madness.

Posted by: Howard

Les

Failed Bureaucracy gone mad again Overpaid but good at costing us money

Posted by: Les