Restricted advice

National IFA 2Plan is set to benefit from its rivals moving to restricted propositions as advisers are holding on to the IFA label and looking for a new home, chief executive Chris Smallwood has said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a guide to how it will measure advisers' disclosure efforts against its expectations, after it detected "unacceptable" shortcomings in its latest post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) work.

'It's nothing like tied': Three 'restricted whole-of-market' advisers on ditching IFA

Enough is enough: What ‘independence’ really means

"Independence is a state of mind - you just need to keep an open mind and consider all the options", the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said as it summed up the findings of its latest post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) research.

The vast majority of IFAs are acting within the guidelines of independence as laid down following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), a study by the regulator suggests.

Why did DC&A Independent Financial Advisers decide to become DC&A Financial Planning on 1 January this year?

A total of 67 of Sesame's near 2,200 member firms have decided to leave the network following its decision to operate as a restricted advice business, group chairman John Cowan has said.

Friends Life has reported a "disappointing" £19m loss for Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) in 2013.

What the public really thinks of advice labels