United Kingdom
Tax & Regulation | 18 Aug 17
Ex-IFA jailed for stealing £1m from client pension funds
A former UK adviser has been jailed for six years and banned from being a company director for eight after he was convicted of stealing £1m ($1.29m, €1.1m) of clients’ money via a self-invested personal pension scheme he invented.
Tax & Regulation | 17 Aug 17
Guernsey bans Sark couple from director roles for 15 years
A husband and wife from the Channel Island of Sark have each been banned from acting as company directors for 15 years after they were convicted and imprisoned for conducting regulated business without a licence and obstructing justice.
VAM Funds signs distribution deal with Novia Global and OMI
Luxembourg-based asset manager VAM Funds has signed a partnership with two platforms for the distribution of its fund ranges.
Investment | 17 Aug 17
Shift to defensive assets urges Architas
Architas has warned that investors should begin shifting towards defensive assets before volatility strikes markets in the latter half of 2017.
Tax & Regulation | 16 Aug 17
Sipps among most complained about UK financial products
The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 59% more complaints about self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) in the first quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year compared to the same period a year before.