“FCA increases adviser fees to £86.5m”

Apr 7, 2022 | Financial Services

OK, let me quickly recycle my article from previous years. The cost of regulation’s going up, we (and therefore you, our client) will be paying more for not very much, the same old scams continue and all that’s generated is more paperwork for us all. No need to check, we’ve all been saying the same things for donkeys’. Apparently, a big chunk this time will go towards their plan to regulate crypto-currencies. Not a hope, I’d say, as those involved are far too clever and the only ones who actually understand how bitcoins and the like actually work. But I doubt anyone will have heard my whistle on this very windy day…

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“Advisers fearful of further compliance and regulation”

“Advisers fearful of further compliance and regulation”

We know, of course we know, that regulation is, or at least should be a ‘good thing’. If those who need or should seek advice can be confident that they’ll be told the right thing, that someone has looked at those ’too good to be true’ investments before they’re allowed to take your money; or, in the case of a Woodford, while they’re raking it in to make sure it’s going where it’s supposed to.