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Mark Loosmore of IRESS finds out how marketing firm ClientsFirst is helping advisers prepare their businesses for the new regulatory environment through the use of PR, email and newsletter campaigns.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has said the government is "absolutely prepared" to cap private pension fund management charges if they hinder saving.

Banning trail commission on fund switches - as the FSA hinted it may do - goes against the spirit of treating customers fairly, advisers say.

It's a call some advisers might be dreading and, for many firms, it could compound the challenges they already face in 2012.

Standard Life (SL) will review the wording of letters sent directly to investors after advisers complained they were incentivizing clients to drop IFAs.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has urged the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to avoid publishing all of its decisions.

Natwest has admitted forging a customer's signature on a terms and conditions form for one of its personal loans.

Collapsed private debt management firm DebtDr owes £600,000 to its clients, a BBC investigation has revealed.

Bluefin Wealth Management's Patrick Murphy explains why the firm requires all its financial planners to achieve the ISO 22222 standard.

The FSA wants whistleblowers to come forward – it even has a hotline – but is reluctant to act on the information it receives.