The FCA fears that consumers have been getting advice which may lead to transfers into unsuitable investments, it said this morning.

The regulator has this morning stressed how advisers must handle insistent clients.

Financial Planners must have been warned that risk profiling is a critical area and they must be clear over the pros and cons of the tools they are using.

FCA workplace pensions proposals fail to provide complete transparency around transaction costs, compliance firm claims.

Many problems surrounding risk profiling that were laid bare in an FSA report six years ago still exist, a former FCA technical specialist says.

Clients are allowed to pay for advice on lump sum investments in instalments, the regulator has reiterated in a notice to advisers, following findings in FAMR.

New PII rules are being considered by the FCA in a bid to prevent firms from “riskier practices”.

Product providers will have to cough up more to fund the FSCS under plans unveiled this morning.

The FCA has been urged to do more to encourage advisers to cut down lengthy suitability reports.

The FCA’s chief executive has warned some pension providers they must take action quickly after the regulator found customers were still at risk of high costs and charges.