Alternative Investments

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review its restrictions on the marketing of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors as a result of proposed European rules.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) should as a matter of urgency retract its references to traded life policies (TLPs) as "toxic", EEA Fund Management has said.

Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in your clients' SIPPs.

Law firm Pannone is offering pro bono legal advice to Arch Cru investors to help them recover the millions of pounds lost in the fund range.

A Poole-based IFA has expressed anger at lawyers for the FSCS for apparently mistakenly including the name of his firm on a list of businesses the scheme may pursue for money it paid out to Keydata investors.

Lawyers hired by the FSCS to pursue claims against IFAs who recommended Keydata yesterday sent out letters with the names and addresses of every firm it is chasing. IFAonline can now exclusively reveal the full list.

Five individuals suspected of being involved in land banking by way of an unauthorised collective investment scheme have been arrested.

Steve Latto discusses the role esoteric investments can play in a SIPP

A tree-mendous way to prepare for retirement is to focus on alternative investments such as forestry, as Edward Daniels explains

Independent advisers who deal compliantly in complex products such as unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) should charge a premium for the service from 2013, Threesixty's Tony Bray has said.