In association with

Remaining advisers must pay for others’ insolvency

Philip Ryley

Forced retirement can be justified

Home > Opinion > Hal Austin

Punching way above its weight

It was as predictable as night follows day that one of the outcomes of the collapse of Northern Rock and the subsequent failure of the UK sub-prime mortgage market was going to be over-regulation and pointing the finger of blame.

Article Tools

visible-status-Standard story-url-comment Austin Oct29 09 - regulation.xml

Our Columnists

Ashley Wassall

Ashley is editor of FTAdviser and writes on all areas of retail finance. Previously supplements editor at Money Management and editor of a European private equity publication.

Nick Rice

Nick is the editor of Investment Adviser. He was news editor and deputy editor of Fund Strategy before rejoining Investment Adviser in November. He has written about investments for a number of FT publications.

Jon Cudby

Jon is editor of Money Management and has 12 years' experience covering retail personal finance. In 2005, Jon was launch editor of FTAdviser and most recently he was head of online content for Incisive Media's financial services titles.

Tony Hazell

Tony is a freelance financial journalist, having been editor of Money Mail at the Daily Mail for a number of years. He has been writing a column in Financial Adviser since 2005.

John Lappin

John is a weekly contributor to Investment Adviser with 15 years’ experience in financial journalism and 10 years writing on the IFA sector. He was formerly editor of an IFA trade magazine.

More on FTAdviser
FTA jobs