Paul Clark of Russelldene Consulting Ltd is a Chartered Financial Planner, FPFS, ACIPP. His company provides technical consultancy to the financial services industry and specialise in the pensions sector.
One of the services Paul provides to his clients is a regular bulletin (most weeks) entitled Pension Related News. It provides useful information and relevant (unstructured) CPD, including a test, for those specialising in pensions and retirement planning. Although aimed primarily at pension advisers, it will also cover other planning considerations such as taxation.
There is normally a charge for this bulletin but for the next four issues, these will be provided free of charge via the ATEB newsletter. Thereafter, those interested in receiving the bulletin on an ongoing basis should contact ATEB for more information.
The first issue is available here.
FCS Transitional Arrangements
Steve Bailey Compliance Update
As you will be aware the Financial Services Authority ceased to be and the Financial Conduct Authority took over the regulation of financial advice firms on 01 April 2013.
The FSA issued PS13/05 last week which includes updated rules and transition arrangements. The policy statement itself is 88 pages but the ‘appendix (3)’ that accompanies it is a mere 1990 pages so you must excuse us for not as yet absorbing every word. The document can be seen here.