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Simplified advice? Not so simple.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published guidance consultation on its plans for a simplified advice regime. Simplified advice is …
Posted in Financial Services, News
Tagged fsa, guidance consultation, retail distribution review, simplified advice
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FSA, investment platforms & cash rebates
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a Policy Statement looking at the use of investment platforms, often referred to as ‘wraps’, in the context of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
Posted in Investments, News
Tagged cash rebates, fsa, investment platforms, policy statement, ps11/09, wraps
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Bogus Invesco funds
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a consumer warning after a bogus firm started to target UK investors using the Invesco Perpetual name.
Posted in Investments, News
Tagged consumer warning, fsa, fsa register, Invesco Asian Precious Metals Fund, Invesco Perpetual
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Investments to avoid: Land banking
News that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has managed to secure a summary judgement in the High Court against the person behind an illegal land banking scheme is a good reminder of the dangers of these scams.
Posted in Investments, News
Tagged collective investment scheme, Consolidated Land UK, fsa, land banking, planning permission, scam
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Some money for Arch Cru investors
Investors in the troubled Arch Cru schemes look set to receive a refund of some of their original investment, as the FSA announces a voluntary £54m package.
Posted in Investments, News
Tagged advisers, arch cru, compensation, fsa, fscs, investors, suitability
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Sense checking makes real sense
Following a recent FSA seminar on investment advice, it has been suggested by the regulator that all investment recommendations are subjected to a “sense check”.
Posted in Financial Services, Investments, News
Tagged common sense, fsa, investment suitability, sense check
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FSA platform paper delay
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is delaying the publication of its much anticipated paper on investment platforms until the third quarter of 2011.
Posted in Financial Services, Investments, News
Tagged cash rebates, delay, fsa, platform paper, transparency
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Changes to the way you receive advice about investments
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has started to publicise changes to the way investors receive advice from the end of next year.
Posted in Financial Services, News
Tagged adviser charging, fsa, independent advice, retail distribution review
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Assessing investment suitability
Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford writes about the FSA conference in London yesterday around assessing the suitability of investment risk.
Posted in Financial Services, Investments, News
Tagged assessing suitability, conference, fsa, retail conduct risk
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Comment: Consumer Focus personal pension report
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford comments on the Consumer Focus report looking at personal pension switching.