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An alarmingly high number of consumers do not know how to risk-rate standard financial products, such as equity ISAs and with-profits bonds, research suggests.
Royal London today launched its online financial planning tool for consumers, MoneyVista.
Hector Sants, chief executive of the outgoing Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told MPs the industry holds the "flawed" belief its responsibility to consumers ends with providing product information at the point of sale, a situation the new regulator will look to correct.
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We still have a very long way to go to educate consumers about savings and investments if this NEST video is anything to go by.
The Consumer Financial Education Body (CFEB), the organisation responsible for helping consumers understand financial matters, has appointed five new non-executive directors to its board.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services (APPG) has given strong backing to the proposals to reform consumer insurance contract law.
The majority of advisers are pinning their hopes on the coalition government, rather than the FSA, to improve the financial services sector.
New FSA powers have come into effect, giving the regulator the ability to deliver “prompt and effective” redress for consumers.
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