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APFA has confirmed it has no intentions of creating a stand-alone focus on protection amid industry lobbying about the need for a more prominent, unified voice within an existing adviser trade body.

Industry experts are calling for the formation of a specialist trade body to fill the need in the protection industry for a unified voice.

The number of advising staff working in financial advice firms fell 9% last year, according to figures put together for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

Panacea Adviser, a free online community for adviser firms, is calling for immediate action to overhaul the way in which the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is funded following yesterday's announcement of a £76m levy on investment intermediaries....

If an independent body is not appointed to monitor the regulator's performance, the Association of Professional Advisers (APFA) will take on the task itself, the body's chairman told members in a defiant speech last night.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) recorded a deficit of almost £154,000 in 2011/12.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) and the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA)have asked for further clarification from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) ahead of upcoming changes.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is to change its name to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has proposed the idea of ‘customer agreed liability' as a way of tackling the absence of a 15-year long stop on complaints.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has admitted any proposal in Parliament to reintroduce a 15-year complaints long-stop for financial advisers is unlikely to make it on to the statute books.