TechLife Exaxe Newsletter May 2012
15 may ‘12
Sharon
Canada / Careers / EU / Life and Pensions / News / Pensions / Regulation / Retail Distribution Review (RDR) / Technology / UK
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The second print edition of TechLife is now available. TechLife is published every quarter and is filled with industry news, white papers and information on legislative changes. If you wish to receive a hard copy of TechLife please email marketing exaxe com with your name and postal address. If you would prefer to receive this …
FSA obsession with IFAs leaves the consumer in the lurch
As soon as the news broke in November that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) had decided to interfere with legacy policies and bring them under the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) umbrella, you just knew they were setting out to make life difficult. And so it proved, with the rules released this week concerning legacy policies …
Aussie rules score over UK’s RDR for effectiveness
08 sep ‘10
Tom Murray
Australia / Life and Pensions / Regulation / Retail Distribution Review (RDR) / UK
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As anyone who has watched a game of Australian Football knows, the rules involved are minimal and do not inhibit players excessively. The same directness of approach and focus on objective has informed the Australian government in its proposals for the banning of commission and regulation of financial advisers. Compared to the FSA’s retail distribution …
Could NEST & RDR combine to save the IFAs?
30 aug ‘10
Tom Murray
Life and Pensions / NEST / Pensions / Retail Distribution Review (RDR)
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The government are under attack from the financial advice sector for two initiatives, both of which are reckoned to be damaging to the long term financial interest of the mass market. Firstly, soft compulsion is going to be used to enforce pension savings on the lower paid while secondly the Retail Distribution Review’s fee only …








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