AIFA

Communicating your value to clients within an hour of meeting them is taking on fresh significance with the move to fee-based advice, industry figures say.

Clients and IFAs have wildly different estimates of the value per hour of independent financial advice in the build-up to 2012, research suggests.

A world-renowned public affairs specialist which has previously worked with the Belarusian government has been hired by the Association of IFAs (AIFA) to boost the organisation's profile.

An investment and protection IFA is seeking to pull together a "small and articulate" lobby group of like-minded advisers to confront the FSA over its policies, and the RDR in particular.

Last month the Income Protection (IP) Task Force published White Paper II outlining the Task Force's thoughts on the current state of the IP market, Peter Carvill examines what consumers need and how the Task Force will respond to them in light of this....

In light of the FSA's proposed regulatory fee increases for IFAs, do you think that advisers should have more input with the regulator on rules affecting their business? Should they be represented on the board?

The Association of IFAs and the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries are at odds over their favoured options for the future funding of the Financial Ombudsman Service.

The Financial Ombudsman Service needs to show it understands how the industry has evolved and improved over recent years as its decisions show signs of retrospection, suggests the Association of IFAs.