“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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“Simon Evan-Cook: FCA must wake up to consolidation damage”

“Simon Evan-Cook: FCA must wake up to consolidation damage”

This is where I can don my ‘been around the block, seen it all before’ mantle. What’s happening in our business/industry/profession at the moment is a lot of what’s become known as consolidation, big companies, many fuelled by private equity, buying up smaller firms or taking over the clients of retiring advisers.