FCA

Best Practice | 25 Nov 16

Proposals from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that would require annuity providers to tell customers what they could gain by shopping around and switching have been met with muted enthusiasm.

Macro Views | 21 Nov 16

Benchmarks are a vital part of the asset management sector. Funds are measured against them, bonuses worked out in relation to them and entire sectors of the industry predicated upon them. But, if recent trends are extrapolated outwards, the days of the benchmark in its current form should be numbered.

Best Practice | 18 Nov 16

Unsurprisingly, most of the responses hitting the inboxes of industry journalists through the course of an otherwise quiet Friday began with “welcoming” messages to the FCA interim report on the asset management industry.

Tax & Regulation | 18 Nov 16

A sixth person has been charged by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for promoting and selling shares through a succession of four boiler room schemes.

Investment | 18 Nov 16

The FCA has criticised the “weak price competition” among asset managers, attacking actively managed funds for failing to outperform their benchmark once fees have been taken into account.