Best Practice
Best Practice | 14 Dec 16
Nucleus launches online learning platform for advisers
Adviser built-wrap Nucleus has launched an online portal to help UK adviser firms with their professional and practice development.
Singapore regulator considers ethics training for advisers
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is looking to introduce an ethics module in exams taken by financial advisers and capital markets intermediaries, in the wake of the 1MDB scandal.
Best Practice | 9 Dec 16
Six things the UK gov’t can do to deter pension scammers
The UK Government’s proposed ban on pensions cold-calling will deter scammers but must be just the start of a concerted effort to drive fraudsters out of the market, says AJ Bell.
Best Practice | 9 Dec 16
FCA sets deadline to end closed life book ‘poor practice’
A tighter framework for closed books of life and pensions business has been unveiled by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after uncovering poor practices in parts of the industry.
Best Practice | 8 Dec 16
Tax avoidance vs evasion debate “immoral” and “inconsistent”
The gap between tax avoidance and evasion is disappearing and it is “immoral” to refer to it in the modern tax debate, said Richard Murphy, professor in practice in international political economy at City, University of London.