Restricted advice
Your profession
Hargreaves Lansdown is to drop the independent status of its financial advisers in favour of going restricted, and is overhauling its charging structure.
01 October 2015
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RDR
Restricted advice group Towry is evaluating its house view on structured products and investment trusts following its acquisition of national IFA Ashcourt Rowan, in a move which could see the combined business registered as independent.
27 February 2015
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RDR
The regulator has "completely messed up the definition of independence", said professional connections support organisation SIFA, as it claimed 95% of solicitors would still chose IFAs over restricted advisers.
16 October 2014
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Your profession
The debate about whether changes made to financial intermediation following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) would herald a shift towards 'restricted' advice may have been settled, according to the experiences of one national business.
09 October 2014
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Your profession
An IFA has left network Intrinsic after he felt he was being nudged towards adopting a restricted proposition.
07 August 2014
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Estate planning
Support services provider Simplybiz has seen a 10% increase in profits in the first year post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) while 2% of its members have left the industry.
02 July 2014
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