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Two investor groups set up to help recover assets from life settlements provider ARM Asset Backed Securities have clashed over allegations of “misinformation.”
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has hinted it may impose stricter regulatory requirements on firms recommending traded life policy investments (TLPIs) after issuing final guidance stating they should not be promoted to most retail investors.
Support services provider Threesixty has put together a list of tips and hints for advisers considering recommending UCIS...
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The Treasury has again rejected calls to allow more alternative investment market (AIM) shares in individual savings accounts (ISAs).
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review its restrictions on the marketing of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors as a result of proposed European rules.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) should as a matter of urgency retract its references to traded life policies (TLPs) as "toxic", EEA Fund Management has said.
Law firm Pannone is offering pro bono legal advice to Arch Cru investors to help them recover the millions of pounds lost in the fund range.
A Poole-based IFA has expressed anger at lawyers for the FSCS for apparently mistakenly including the name of his firm on a list of businesses the scheme may pursue for money it paid out to Keydata investors.
Lawyers hired by the FSCS to pursue claims against IFAs who recommended Keydata yesterday sent out letters with the names and addresses of every firm it is chasing. IFAonline can now exclusively reveal the full list.
Five individuals suspected of being involved in land banking by way of an unauthorised collective investment scheme have been arrested.
Independent advisers who deal compliantly in complex products such as unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) should charge a premium for the service from 2013, Threesixty's Tony Bray has said.
The FSA is under pressure from advisers to explain how they can become better qualified to recommend unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), and avoid falling foul of the regulator’s rules on their use.
Seven men are facing jail after being convicted for their roles in an £8m boiler-room fraud pushing a bio-diesel investment.
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