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The Financial Services Bill has passed through to the House of Lords without any significant amendments affecting financial advisers, including the reintroduction of a long-stop.
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has warned that consumers are ignoring the risks around unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), even when they are spelled out by their advisers.
Auto-enrolment (AE) requirements should be slashed in order to help businesses grow, a controversial report commissioned by the department for Business, Innovation and Skills has recommended.
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The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged the Money Advice Service (MAS) to expand its offerings and ‘push regulatory boundaries’ in order to help to close the advice gap.
In this week’s Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Have you told your clients the way they pay for advice will change from the end of 2012?
A financial adviser has failed in his appeal against a ban imposed on him by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failings related to advice on occupational pension transfers.
Advisers with clients in income drawdown should review all such arrangements now to get “ahead of the game” before any potential regulatory intervention, a provider says.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has more than doubled the annual levy for financial advisers for 2012/13, largely as a result of known claims relating to Arch Cru and MF Global.
The government must conduct a full review of the 'uncontrollable' cost of regulation and the impact it is having on businesses, according to Tenet.
Pension transfer providers believe The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should issue guidance to trustees to simplify and speed up the process, according to a government report.
The Pensions Ombudsman has rejected a case arguing members of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme were misled into the assumption benefits would always be linked to RPI.
Forcing employers to auto-enrol agency workers will be costly for businesses and deter saving among temporary staff, an MP has warned.
A High Court judge ruled today that bankrupts could be forced to draw their pensions and hand them over to their creditors.
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