A new online resource has been launched to help advisers through the ‘minefield’ of due diligence on platforms.

The Pensions Regulator has begun a name and shame operation to show which companies are failing to comply with auto-enrolment.

Ex-regulator Rory Percival has warned Financial Planners they have just 7 months to ensure the risk profile tools they use are ‘fit for purpose’.

An adviser convicted of theft has lost his court appeal against an FCA ban despite claiming there was a ‘vendetta’ against him.

Rory Percival, the former FCA technical specialist, is set to reveal the results of his review into the risk profiling tools market.

Rory Percival, the former FCA technical specialist, is set to reveal the results of his review into the risk profiling tools market tomorrow.

About 400 Financial Planners, Paraplanners, advisers, and wealth managers are attending the Morningstar Investment Conference UK, which began this morning.

Rory Percival, the former FCA technical specialist, says practices around capacity for loss are “frankly very poor” among many firms – perhaps the majority.

The total number of complaints reported to the FCA by firms in the second half of 2016 was 3.04 million.

The firms which had the most complaints registered against them relating to pensions and decumulation were revealed today by the FCA.