The FSA has been incredibly prolific and industrious recently with their thematic reviews and projects examining areas such as pension switching, structured products and platforms.
One of the latest to cause a raft of activity and the production of associated industry and guidance documents focused on another high level risk advice area – Unregulated Collectives (UCIS) The good and poor practice guides are undoubtedly an invaluable source of data, providing clear and useful FSA benchmarks against which firms can assess their own processes. The production of concise and identifiable suitability checklists equally provide valuable further assistance and importantly a framework for firms to ensure that their own procedures are aligned to that of current FSA thinkin...
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