Posts tagged as regulation

13 Jan 2008

Is your adviser advising or selling?

Consumers’ inability to answer this question, though often their own fault for not even realising why the question matters, lies behind much of their poor experience of dealing with the UK financial service industry. Speaking at the Institute of Economic Affairs, FSA Director Stephen Bland said last month that its Retail Distribution Review consultation has thrown up a consensus around a clearer distinction between selling and advising.

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23 Sep 2007

The politics of Northern Rock

When Chancellor, one of Gordon Brown’s first initiatives in 1997 was to make the Bank of England operationally independent of the Government. Depoliticising the setting of interest rates was widely praised at the time as both politically astute and technically sensible, and generally still is

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09 Jul 2007

A simple call for good retail advice

Published in FTfm, 9th July 2007 (Article by Stuart Fowler)

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29 Jun 2007

The FSA validates fees for advice

The key proposals of the FSA Retail Distribution Review were well trailed – here as elsewhere. The main one is a gamble: forcing IFAs into a professional business model will also push it even further into the high end of consumer income and assets, leaving an even bigger mass-market gap below it to be filled [...]

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15 Jun 2007

Anticipating the Retail Distribution Review

The Discussion Paper resulting from the FSA review of the failed business model for long-term savings in the UK will be presented by the FSA at a conference on 27th June. No Monkey Business Limited circulated this briefing to financial journalists, anticipating what it will say. Our advice: don’t expect any silver bullet – all [...]

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