Gosling's Grouse

We now know the next leader of the FCA will not be Tracey McDermott, which hopefully was not news to her after the Chancellor spilled the beans earlier this month.

It is always dangerous to make predictions for the year ahead, because they are inevitably going to be wrong. However, I believe 2016 could be the most important year the asset management industry has experienced since 1986.

Ever since the dotcom crisis at the turn of the century, regulators have struggled with getting the right 'culture' into the industry, writes Lawrence Gosling.

There is something faintly British about the way Aberdeen Asset Management is being talked about at the moment.

The year 2005 seems like a lifetime ago instead of ten years. We were in the aftermath of the dotcom crisis and had lost a generation of investors who had been sucked in by the supposedly high returns with little risk offered from investing in technology...

Investment Week is due to publish a book, Intelligent Investors, to celebrate its first 20 years shortly.

Much is made within the industry about 'profitable' and 'unprofitable' clients, but outside the financial services bubble it can sound a bit crass or uncaring.

We have all talked about the advice gap since RDR took hold, but surely there has always been an advice gap?

We are about to embark on what I call the autumn acronym season where VCT, BPR, IHT, SEIS and EIS are part of many conversations advisers have with their clients.

'Standing up for the little man' was one way Daniel Godfrey's exit from the Investment Association (IA) was depicted last week.