Four years have passed since the FSA launched its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in June 2006.

To put this into chronological context of the World Cup football fever that had, up until this week, gripped the nation – in June 2006,…

Britain’s financial advisers are becoming a little cheesed off at the latest so-called crusade by regulators to make the industry a safer place for consumers to venture.

Advisers will be required to hold ‘a statement of professional standing’, according to a…

UK public sector pensions are being used to beat the electorate’s austerity expectations into line ahead of next Tuesday’s emergency budget by the new Con-Lib coalition Government.

The newly formed Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) this week announced the likely cost…

The Alternative Investment Fund Management (AIFM) directive has been likened to the reaction of a man in a bar when a fight breaks out.

Instead of trying to stop the fight, the bystander, in this case the European Commission, which is…

In the world of investment, diversification is often held up as the key to success, enabling investors to spread their risk and minimise losses in a market downturn.

In the business world, diversification is just as important. Financial planners face a…

One hundred and twenty five years since it first opened a store in London, the luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has returned with an audacious new shop – or maison it says, which flies in the face of this new age…