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The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) has approved the final QCF Level 4 standards with new guidelines for giving specialist advice.
The majority of consumers will only be prepared to pay for investment advice as a percentage of the amount invested and will not part with more than 3% as an initial fee, industry figures say.
Aegon has launched an online support centre to help advisers make their business RDR compliant.
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The Conservative Party best understands the requirements of the financial services industry, advisers say.
IFAs face a "race against time" to get in shape for the RDR, with some exhibiting glaring gaps in their knowledge of new qualification requirements, recent research suggests.
A newly-formed industry association has been set up in Australia – but only 14 firms have so far met its strict criteria for independence.
National IFA 2plan Wealth Management is set to hand its 200 advisers what it calls a “radical” alternative to its standard client service agreements.
A Government scheme providing members of the public with access to free face-to-face ‘independent’ financial advice is being rolled out nationwide.
Lifequote is aiming to help advisers address the threat of online competition with a series of protection training workshops.
Richard Goodall, sales and marketing director at Ascentric, on how to make your firm stand out from the crowd.
IFA network giant Sesame is set to launch an online RDR forum enabling its member firms to share ideas as they prepare for life after 2012.
FSA plans in the RDR to recognise trade bodies only if they meet a strict set of criteria will likely result in higher fees and lower membership, threesixty warns.
Multi-tied advisers are way down the list of consumers’ preferred distributors for financial products in the future, behind even supermarkets and major retailers like M&S.
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