UK advisers face extra FSCS levy despite fall in Sipps claims
The UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) may still impose an interim levy on life and pension advisers despite a fall in the average cost of Sipp-related claims.
The UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) may still impose an interim levy on life and pension advisers despite a fall in the average cost of Sipp-related claims.
The average salary earned by UK advisers has hit an “all-time high”, according to latest research by recruitment consultancy firm BWD Search and Selection.
UK advisers will need to make clear the difference between “advice” and “guidance”, according to proposals published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) extend its robo-advice unit to include firms developing guidance solutions.
Investors in the ill-fated EEA Life Settlements Fund have been told it could be more profitable for them to sell off remaining policies in the fund than hold them to maturity, according to David Trinkwon, coordinator of the EEA Investors Group.
The results are in – here are the 10 strongest-performing sectors on a total return basis according to the UK’s Investment Association and data from FE Analytics.
A former UK adviser has been banned from being a director for nine years after his now collapsed IFA firm gave advice to over 300 clients to invest £12m (€14m, $14.8m) in unregulated investments in storage units.
Liberty Sipp, a UK provider of self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps), has increased its assets under management by an astonishing 87% over the last year.
A first-of-its-kind public beneficial ownership register of overseas companies that own UK property is being pushed forward by the UK government despite concerns that the information should not be made freely available.
The number of American expats in the UK declaring their offshore assets to the US taxman has surged in 2017, amid fears that an Obama-era tax amnesty could be curtailed or ended by the Trump administration.
The UK government’s plan to dramatically increase probate fees has suffered a setback after British politicians announced that the measure could only be introduced with the consent of parliament.
The UK tax office will visit all English Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premier League clubs in the next three years to review payments made to players amid a string of high-profile tax avoidance cases.