A financial adviser from Henley-on-Thames has been jailed for 14 months after giving false financial advice to an elderly woman.
An adviser jailed earlier this year for more than 40 fraud-related offences has been banned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
HSBC is to convert its whole-of-market advisory proposition into a restricted advice model next year, Investment Week understands.
The reputation of a newspaper rests, partly, on the timeliness of its coverage. So imagine the damage if its front-page headline tomorrow read: ‘The Titanic has sunk'.
The FSA has prohibited a former financial adviser from performing any regulated activities for failings related to unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS).
A former tied adviser who defrauded a friend out of £22,000, pocketing £10,000 for himself, has escaped jail but must repay the money.
An independent financial adviser is spearheading a campaign to revive trust in financial services, after warning the situation had reached a "crisis point".
As 2011 draws to a close, now is as good a time as any to reflect on what has been another extraordinary year in global economic and political history and one which saw volatility return to markets once more amid whispers of a new credit crunch.