FCA
Best Practice | 1 Mar 17
How to avoid being scammed
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed the tactics used by investment fraudsters to deceive the over 55s, as it urges the demographic to check investment opportunities are genuine before parting with their money.
Best Practice Adviser Awards | 27 Feb 17
Why all int’l advisers must pay attention to the UK regulator
The trouble with retirement planning is that there are many different rules and regulations as successive governments add their stamps to the way we save for and use our pension pots.
Retirement | 24 Feb 17
Drawdown beats annuities but pension cash is king
More than half of UK pension pots accessed for the first time were withdrawn entirely as cash lump sums in Q3 2016. Drawdown proved twice as popular as annuities but a fall in the number of people seeking advice before making pension decisions has some in the industry concerned.
Tax & Regulation | 23 Feb 17
One in 10 calls to the FCA about scams
More than one in 10 consumers contacting the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) do so to report a financial scam and to find out what they can do about it, the UK regulator revealed Thursday.
Tax & Regulation | 7 Feb 17
FCA issues warning over poor DB pension transfer advice
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning notice to an unnamed individual for poor advice given to more than 700 members of defined benefit (DB) schemes that left them at “serious risk of unsuitable outcomes”.