Informed Choice has published a new briefing note to describe the main changes to retail financial services regulation which come into force at the end of next year.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford looks at a US study which concludes that free investment advice isn’t worth the price.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was featured in the Independent today, talking about the Money Advice Service.

The Chancellor is expected to force UK banks to ring-fence their retail banking operations from riskier investment banking in his Mansion House speech this evening.

We take a look at our annual FSA invoice and explain how much direct regulation is now costing every client of Informed Choice.

The BBC screened an interesting episode of Panorama yesterday evening, looking at whether investors can trust their banks when it comes to financial advice.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford wrote in Money Marketing this week about how difficult it can be to make a comparison between how different IFAs charge their clients.

Following a recent FSA seminar on investment advice, it has been suggested by the regulator that all investment recommendations are subjected to a “sense check”.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford looks at the reasons why the cost of independent financial advice will not increase in 2013 as a result of the Retail Distribution Review.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is delaying the publication of its much anticipated paper on investment platforms until the third quarter of 2011.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford was invited to present a webcast this morning for the Thought Leadership Live forum.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has started to publicise changes to the way investors receive advice from the end of next year.

Following the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) paraplanner conference in Hinckley yesterday, Professional Adviser magazine has published a feature about Nick & Shelley explaining how we use paraplanners at Informed Choice.

Not known for their shining reputation for providing good investment advice, the banks have taken another beating today after Bank of Scotland was fined £3.5m by the FSA.

The team has spent today sharing regular updates on Twitter, to offer an insight into a typical day in the life of an award-winning firm of Chartered Financial Planners.

Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford has a run-in with a claims management firm and explains why they are surplus to requirements when it comes to PPI misselling claims.

Last weekend, the Guardian published an article and comment piece on some of the more dubious practices associated with awards in the financial services sector.

Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford was invited to participate in an online interview this morning, as part of the IFA Lives series from IFA social networking website IFA Life.

Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford writes about the FSA conference in London yesterday around assessing the suitability of investment risk.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) dealt with a record number of complaints during the last year, with over half of them relating to payment protection insurance (PPI).