Financial advice to take comparison website route - planner
- Tuesday, 30 December 2014
- Articles
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New comparison websites for financial advice will begin to emerge and then dominate the mass market in the next few years, a Financial Planner has predicted, as he launched his new online business.
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FCA fines Sesame Ltd £1.6m for 'undermining' RDR
- Thursday, 30 October 2014
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Sesame Ltd, the UK's largest network of financial advisers, has been fined £1,598,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority for setting up a so-called 'pay-to-play' scheme which the regulator says undermined the ban on commissions introduced by the RDR.
Read more...Financial Planners react to scathing fees report
- Friday, 13 June 2014
- Insight & Analysis
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The issue of fees and charges in the new RDR era came to the fore after the regulator delivered a scathing assessment of advisory firms – having found 73 per cent failed to provide the required information on the cost of advice.
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AFH Financial buys eighth IFA firm since RDR
- Monday, 19 May 2014
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AFH Financial Group of Bromsgrove, West Midlands, has bought the assets of IFA Omega Consulting (Norwich) Ltd.
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