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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.
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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.
IFA network Financial Ltd is hosting a technical roadshow designed to help advisers prepare for the RDR.
St James’s Place (SJP) has welcomed the ‘restricted advice’ definition proposed in the RDR.
Life companies may need to diversify their distribution channels beyond small IFAs to survive the RDR's commission ban, a study by Fitch Ratings concludes.
Over a quarter of advisers consider the RDR proposal to enforce a new qualification standard will be biggest issue facing the IFA industry over the next 12 months, research suggests.
An open letter from an adviser to AIFA has reignited the fierce debate over whether higher minimum qualifications are the answer to the industry's problems.
Platforms should come under the same whole of market regulatory scope as investment products post-RDR, according to advisers.
Hector Sants' departure as chief executive of the FSA will have no bearing on the RDR, despite it coming just two years before the 2012 implementation deadline, the Personal Finance Society (PFS) says.
Major insurers are spending millions of pounds of cash reserves to win a larger share of the corporate pensions market, despite evidence that much of the business will prove to be loss-making, according to a leading insurance-market expert.
IN Partnership is continuing its growth plans with the addition of Bragagnini Associates Financial Solutions to the network.
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