FSCS

Best Practice | 7 Oct 16

More than three quarters of advisers in the UK support the introduction of a risk-based Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy, according to a new survey from platform provider AJ Bell.

Property | 6 Oct 16

Harlequin Property SVG, the company behind the £400m ($509m, €454m) overseas property scheme, has officially entered insolvency proceedings, a decision likely to result in hefty losses for thousands of investors.

Tax & Regulation | 28 Sep 16

The head of the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has called for the £50,000 ($64,907,€57,770) limit on payouts for clients who receive bad financial advice to be scrapped.

Best Practice | 16 Aug 16

Nearly eight out of 10 (77%) UK advisers believe that product providers should contribute towards the cost of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) levy on intermediaries.

Products | 26 Jul 16

Complaints about self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) had the highest success rate of any product looked at by the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (Fos) in the first quarter of this year.