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FTAdviser latest:FSA enlists advisers to help battle mortgage fraud

Story by: Catherine Couch , Mortgage Adviser

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has enlisted the help of the adviser community to tackle mortgage fraud.

  • Time published: 12:17
  • Date published: 28.08.2008
  • Published in: Mortgages

Ineagh launches its first retail fund

New Iveagh fund aims for wealth preservation and targets a return of 9.5 per cent a year

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

ifs wants finance lessons dropped from schools

The ifs has called on the government to drop the teaching of personal finance from the national curriculum.

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

FSA bans Barnsley man over pensions failings

The FSA has banned financial adviser Darrell Eaden over pension transfers failings.

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

Fines for failings

2175 customers left exposed to unsuitable PPI policies

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

FSA's market options push should be stronger - Chase

The results of the FSA's thematic work on open market options is a step in the right direction, according to Jason Walker, senior manager for AWD Chase de Vere, but he believes the message must be far stronger if consumers are to benefit from the highest possible level of retirement in the open market.

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

Threesixty offers security template to IFAs

Template set to help tackle ID fraud and data theft

  • Date published: 28.08.2008

FSA cracks down on lenders for varying charges

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has threatened court action against mortgage lenders with contracts that allow them to vary their charges.

  • Date published: 27.08.2008

FSA must listen to consumers on RDR reforms

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) must place greater importance on what consumers want from financial advisers as it moves ahead with Retail Distribution Review (RDR) reforms, Aegon UK has warned.

  • Date published: 27.08.2008

Fos clears up PPI complaints practice

The Financial Ombudsman Service has clarified the way it deals with complaints about payment protection insurance.

  • Date published: 27.08.2008

News Analysis

Form 59 transparency demand

Small life offices keep policyholders in the dark

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 01.09.2008

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Comments

Charlie and the shockalot factory

When I finally put down my quill pen and retire, my husband has this romantic notion that I will sit down at my shiny new home computer and pen a best selling novel. I sigh and explain that, to be a successful novelist you need a fertile imagination and a believable scenario. The skill of being a successful financial journalist, on the other hand, is turning technical bumph into readable copy and, frankly, there are not many chances in this job to marry the two.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 01.09.2008

Features

Pensions spotlight - Equitable Life - compensation time?

The Parliamentary Ombudsman gives hope to unlucky Equitable pensioners, but bypasses the dark side of with profits operations, reports John Chapman

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 01.09.2008

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