What is the FSA's endgame for consumers on product pricing?

What price, one price? A neat consumerist or political slogan perhaps, or something rather more serious?

Certainly as far as the financial services industry is concerned, it is a question that many fund managers, platform service providers and intermediaries wish the regulators would address with a keen-weather eye on the desperate need for commercial pragmatism. The long-running debate about the appropriateness and fairness of the rebate of fund charges paid by fund management companies to platform service providers rumbles on. The clock is ticking and the countdown has started – some while ago for that matter. Time waits for no management team and while firms fully acknowledge that no...