It is "essential" clients are given prior notification when their fund holdings are converted to post-RDR 'clean' alternatives, but individual consent is not necessary, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined in finalised guidance on bulk transfers...

Wealth manager Towry has agreed a £70m refinancing deal which will reduce its cost of capital and give it cash for acquisitions.

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An execution-only investment platform launched a year ago by Surrey-based IFA Informed Choice has closed to new business after its pricing terms became uncompetitive.

Tax relief on pensions should be replaced by a Treasury contribution of 50p per £1 saved, argues a radical report by Michael Johnson for influential thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

Retirees receiving financial 'guidance' via the government's 'right-to-advice' promise outlined at Budget 2014 will also be told how long they are likely to live to help inform their decision about what to do with their retirement savings, Steve Webb...

'It's like everyone's over the mental fug of RDR and is ready to hold the industry to account..'.

Hargreaves Lansdown received almost 3,200 complaints in the second half of last year, figures published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) show.

Non-exec directors at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have appointed Simon Davis, a partner at Clifford Chance, to conduct an independent inquiry into the handling of its proposed investigation into life insurance contracts.

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