Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (Priips)
Update: EC Prips Regulation due for publication on July 3; latest draft shifts burden further towards structured product creators
Europe's laws on the key information document (Kid) and packaged retail investment products (Prips) are scheduled for implementation on July 3. The latest draft suggests more onerous responsibility for product providers
Taking the Retail Distribution Review to Europe
Replicating the RDR
FSA crackdown on Ucis to hit private wealth management hardest
The potential ban on the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes to retail will also reduce the range of investments in the private wealth sector, say industry participants
Regulators failing on transparency, asset manager survey finds
Regulatory focus should shift, industry says
Regulator interview: Esma's Steven Maijoor reveals all on ETFs
Regulator Q&A: Steven Maijoor
Editorial: Safety in deposits
Editor's letter
UK FSA asked to broaden scope and improve clarity in retail product development and governance consultation
The deadline for responses to the Financial Services Authority's latest consultation on structured products fell yesterday, January 11. Responses have requested a broader scope and more clarity
What does 2012 hold for structured products?
What's on the horizon?
UK Structured Products Association joins the JAC
The SPA is the latest addition to the Joint Associations Committee, which has been bolstering its membership in recent months following the release of its core structured products principles
Editorial: Another point of principle
Editorial: Another point of principle
JAC reaffirms retail structured products principles with bigger committee
JAC reaffirms retail structured products principles with bigger committee
New regulations leave retail structured products on shaky ground in France
One step forwards, three steps back
Italian register of fee-only advisers could change retail investment landscape
The register of fee-only advisers soon to be introduced in the Italian market could drive more investors towards listed products
Opposition grows to Prips risk indicator proposal
Publication of responses to European consultation paper reveals widespread dislike of risk indicator plans