Story by: Marc Shoffman, FinancialAdviser
A support programme has been launched to help IFAs grow their pension business.
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Keypoints from the FSA's retail distribution review consultation paper entitled: Delivering the Retail Distribution Review, focuses on: professionalism, corporate pensions and applicability of RDR proposals to pure protection advice.
The fallout from the financial crisis and the bank bailouts that ensued is continuing to settle, and the FSA is now looking to tighten up the regulatory regime for trading activity to try and prevent a future disaster, one of the key recommendations of the Turner Review.
This week the shopper is looking to make financial plans for her future with her husband and their plans to have a baby in the next two years.
The FSA has been carrying out covert monitoring of structured product advice and has asked a number of providers to keep an eye on IFA firms, as part of a discreet review of the controversial sector.
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