MAS

Mark Hoban has backed the Money Advice Service (MAS) to play a central role in providing the guidance guarantee.

"The Budget freedoms are not license for people to spend their retirement income unwisely" - so said Key Retirement Solutions' Billy Burrows when I interviewed him recently (see pages 4-5).

The Treasury wants to hear from financial advisers as it published a call for evidence as part of its review into the role played by the Money Advice Service (MAS).

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the Money Advice Service (MAS) and The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) to deliver the government's at-retirement guidance guarantee.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has urged the regulator to re-consider reviewing the way it calculates the fees paid to it by advisers, after plans to overhaul the area were scrapped.

Product providers should have no role in delivering free retirement guidance, following the 'advice for all' proposals in the Budget, Legal & General (L&G) chief executive Nigel Wilson has said.

The government has today launched an independent review of the Money Advice Service (MAS), responding to calls from the Treasury select committee (TSC) last December.

The government's retirement guidance guarantee should include the formation of an adviser directory to ensure consumers have a smooth route to regulated advice, according to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

The Money Advise Service (MAS) has defied MPs' denunciation of its digital strategy by serving more online customers in the last year than "ever before" and surpassing satisfaction levels, according to its annual results published today.

Could insurance companies deliver a retirement ‘advice' service that is both cost effective and able to pass a public test of impartiality?