Dwarf tossing on Wall St, work experience at the FSA and an unfortunate pensioner. It's IFAonline's slightly leftfield round-up of the week.
Sesame Bankhall Group chief operating officer Stephen Young has quit just a week after details of the platform proposition he headed were announced to members.
Protection products will be ‘pivotal' to adviser firms' future prosperity, according to Sesame Bankhall.
Sesame Bankhall executive chairman Ivan Martin has warned IFAs not to rely on any radical overhaul of RDR, despite expressing concerns about the changes being made.
Sesame Bankhall Group is to launch a school for budding advisers to help "attract and nurture" the next generation of IFAs.
Sesame Bankhall has selected Axa Elevate to help power a new investment platform to fill the gap left by Portavista which closed earlier this year.
Sesame Bankhall's MD of distribution is urging the FSA to back down on its decision not to introduce a 15-year long-stop on complaints, or face losing much needed corporate investment into the shrinking IFA sector.
Sesame members will be provided with a new compliance IT platform to help them manage their regulatory risks.
At AT8 we have been following the move towards platforms with interest, particular the networks' strategy.
Sesame Bankhall is planning a new investment platform to fill the gap left by Bankhall's Portavista which closed earlier this year.