Julie Hepworth, group regulatory manager at Perspective Financial Group, explains how to make sure your gap-fill evidence is up to scratch.
When is a deadline date not a deadline date? This is not, I hasten to add, the start of an early Christmas cracker joke, but the answer may well draw a wry smile from the adviser community. The answer is: when it is a regulatory deadline. I didn’t say it would be funny, did I? As the industry gears up for RDR we are all fully aware the new environment begins on the 1 January 2013 and we all have up until that date to prepare ourselves. Or do we? Since the FSA approved the first six accredited bodies (ABs) in late September it has quickly become clear that advisers need to allow 60 day...
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