The Financial Planning Association of Australia is to host professional bodies from 24 territories - representing 150,000 CFP professionals worldwide - in Sydney later this month.
Despite fears that consumers would be unwilling to pay for financial advice post-RDR, AXA's latest 'Big Money Index' has found that one in four consumers are willing to pay for financial advice, the same as pre-RDR.
On the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Icelandic bank Icesave, the FSCS has revealed it has paid out just over £4.5bn in compensation to 228,516 customers.
The FCA has censured Catalyst Investment Group Limited for "recklessly misleading" investors who invested £54m in bonds offered by ARM Asset Backed Securities SA (ARM) in 2009 and 2010.
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