Financial advice

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided Europe-wide rules on recording client consultations do not require UK financial advisers to tape face-to-face meetings to prove they are acting in clients' best interests.

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has lost almost 60% of its network's member firms in the wake of a decision to kill-off its problem-laden investment advice business.

PA speaks to professionals at every level of the IFP membership to find out what they think about it merging with the CISI

An independent advisory business is set to submit its investment portfolios for regular scrutiny after independent tests were carried out on a trio of live client cases.

An independent financial planning firm will offer its clients legal services as part of a joint venture with a law firm.

Alastair Rush picks the areas he thinks the government's advice review should focus on...

Like the fabled magic chalice, most advisers, certainly since RDR, say what the govt now wants cannot exist

Four advice gap pioneers the government must speak to

Millions of "totally disenfranchised" savers could return to financial advice as a result of the government's wide-scale review, adviser Keith Churchouse has said.

A major review into consumer access to the financial advice market has been launched by HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).