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After the fall-out from the FSA’s recent platform policy paper, CWC Research’s Clive Waller warns the regulator is not concerned enough about consumer outcomes.
Research has shown advisers assess product attributes over any pricing consideration when advising on protection.
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A 'read-across' of the retail distribution review (RDR) to the protection space remains a possibility and intermediaries must continue to lobby hard to prevent it, an industry consultant said.
The protection sector has a “colossal opportunity” to expand after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) but many IFAs lack protection knowledge and those that do have it do not use it, according to new research.
Clive Waller, director at CWC Research, on why Barclays quitting branch-based financial planning is bad news for IFAs.
Dear FSA, I do hope you won’t mind me expressing a little surprise at some of the contents of your platform paper, but be honest: you have done something of a U-turn.
Standard Life took home the top gong of Platform of the Year at the Aberdeen UK Platform Awards.
Clive Waller, managing director of CWC Research, looks at technology developments affecting the platform industry.
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Clive Waller, managing director of CWC Research, discusses the contentious issue of platform charging.
Platforms should come under the same whole of market regulatory scope as investment products post-RDR, according to advisers.
Clive Waller, director at CWC Research, takes a closer look at what CP 09/31 could mean for protection IFAs...
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