RDR debate 20 October 2010
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Caton. I hope the Minister will forgive me for holding this debate on a day when he probably has quite a few other things on. As he knows, however, such debates are a bit of a lottery, and I was not expecting mine to come up today.
Schroders' research reveals a significant number of advisers outsourcing their investment process since the RDR – Stuart Podmore examines the findings.
It was Sir Callum McCarthy's infamous ‘Gleneagles speech in September 2006’ which laid the groundwork for the overhaul of the UK financial services retail distribution business model, something now referred to as the ‘RDR’.
At the beginning of August, the ‘You could not make it up” season got well underway with HM Treasury and the FCA launching a review to examine how to plug the advice gap (their own regulatory actions had caused). Well, they missed that last bit out in the announcement.
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