The Chartered Insurance Institute is calling for a single set of standards, a new complaint system and harsher sanctions to build professionalism in the industry in its first response to the FSA’s RDR. The response, A Professional Body for Retail Financial Services?, outlines what professionalism would look like in a post-RDR environment.
Bank of England maintains bank rate at 5.75%
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted today to maintain the official bank rate at 5.75 per cent.
Why should the financial services industry pay for generic advice?
Exactly who has made, and then won, the argument that the financial services industry should foot half the bill or more for generic advice or information?I may have been absent when this happened but I doubt it. What I have heard is the seemingly capable Treasury minister Kitty Ussher suggest that funding should come from […]
Skipton Building Society – Three Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
Skipton Building Society
Three Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
FSA with-profits warning to CEOs
The FSA has sent a Dear CEO letter to insurers, warning that it has uncovered worrying practices in open and closed with-profits funds involving standards of governance and run-off plans.The letter highlights practices that the regulator observed as part of two reviews, one focusing on the governance arrangements of all with-profits funds and one on […]
Mark Page: “A good time to be a European fund manager”
With European markets picking up in early 2015, Mark Page, Artemis European Opportunities Fund manager, discusses the ‘macro’ drivers and whether the improvements are sustainable. Largely driven by economic stimulus by the European Central Bank, European stockmarkets have performed strongly so far in 2015. Mark discusses the relative merits and sustainability of ECB policy with […]
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Five minutes with…Helm Godfrey’s Danby Bloch
Ahead of his appearance at Money Marketing’s flagship conference, Money Marketing Interactive, this April, Helm Godfrey chairman Danby Bloch looks at getting graduates into advice and making adviser the ‘go-to gurus’ of finance What should we be doing to get more new advisers into the profession? There’s no quick fix, but there are lots of […]
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Mark Polson: Consensus on CIPs could be just about to crumble
The way centralised investment propositions run today is far from perfect. So where do we go from here? There should be a name for the rule of thumb that says, just as the retail financial services industry reaches some consensus that something should be done a certain way, it all starts falling apart. In fact, […]
What advisers can learn from new banking regulation
A look at the important take-aways from the senior manager regime’s previous implementation for those beginning their own preparations The forthcoming extension of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime represents the next major regulatory change that gets to the heart of a firm’s culture, governance and operational considerations. SM&CR implementation will not be a one-time […]