Standard Life Aberdeen loses top client
Standard Life Aberdeen has lost its biggest client, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), after the FTSE 100 bank decided to pull more than £100bn assets over competition concerns.
Aussie advisers face tougher exams
The newly appointed chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) used his first public appearance to support calls for finance sector workers to face tougher exams to lift standards.
Best Practice | 16 Feb 18
Brendan Dolan on the top challenges facing advisers worldwide
Following his first year as sales director of Old Mutual International, Brendan Dolan gives insights into the most pressing issues he has come across as he has travelled across various regions of the world.
Convoy freezes former directors British Virgin Islands assets
The former director of troubled Convoy Global has had his assets on the British Virgin Islands frozen, with the firm also filing a writ against him and 12 others, demanding they pay £16m in compensation.
Best Practice | 15 Feb 18
How was the British Steel pension scandal allowed to happen?
A damning report from the UK’s Work and Pensions Committee has blasted the actions of some financial advisers who acted like “vultures”, and who “bamboozled” British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members, raising questions about how this could happen in a post-RDR world?