Future of Advice
Evolving financial advice models, ensuring accessibility, affordability, and consumer protection in changing markets.
Visit the Future of Advice dedicated microsite on this topicPIMFA Key Successes Overview 2025/26
Read the overview of how we are continuing to deliver meaningful change and value. Looking at our successes over the last year in Policy and Advocacy and Regulation and Compliance, with an overview of PIMFA Groups, Event Highlights and Awards.
PIMFA Key Successes 2025/26
Read how we are continuing to deliver meaningful change and value. Looking at our successes over the last year in Policy and Advocacy and Regulation and Compliance, with an overview of PIMFA Groups, Event Highlights and Awards.
PIMFA Queries Compendium
This Queries Compendium represents PIMFA’s first publication bringing together a selection of the queries raised by our member firms over the past two years. The queries encompass a wide range of regulatory and operational topics, and we have included those that remain most pertinent and of continuing value to our membership.
FCA Adviser Survey 2025 – Feedback from Member Firms
The FCA issued a new Advisers’ Survey under s.165 FSMA 2000 in June 2025. Firms in scope were principally those classified as Personal Investment Firms and the advisory and intermediary entities within groups. Read their collated feedback now.
Targeted Support: a new era of accessible financial advice?
Read here an article from the PIMFA Journal #32 by Alexandra Green & Jie Clues-Low at Macfarlanes looking at how targeted support could usher in a new era of accessible financial advice
PIMFA Journal #32
Read here the PIMFA Journal #32, featuring nine articles of thought leadership on a current industry topic of interest from PIMFA Associate members, looking at topics such as AI, Innovation, Non-Financial Misconduct, Appointed Representative risk/insurance, Targeted Support, Cyber Threats Facing UK Financial Firms, Insurer & Underwriter Attitudes on IFA Firms Advising on Inheritance Tax (IHT) Products, Going Beyond Index Data and What Better Data Could Do For You
Insurer & Underwriter Attitudes on IFA Firms Advising on Inheritance Tax (IHT) Products
Read here an article from the PIMFA Journal #32 by Joshua Upil, Associate Director at Onyx, highlighting that the UK inheritance tax landscape is in flux and insurers are responding with increased scrutiny and risk-based pricing for PI insurance
From oversight to insurance: How AR reforms reshape principal risk
Read here an article from PIMFA Journal #32 by Kate Albert, CEO & Founder at Kova Professions, looking at what HM Treasury’s Appointed Representative reforms mean for financial adviser principals
PIMFA Ongoing Advice Services – Guidance for firms
This Guide has been developed by PIMFA to assist firms in designing an appropriate approach to ongoing advice services which is aligned to regulatory expectations. Whilst not intended to be exhaustive, it includes practical steps that firms can take to implement and enhance their approaches. It also includes real-world examples, based on interviews with member firms, of how firms in the sector have addressed issues or implemented changes.
PIMFA response to Financial Ombudsman Service: Evolving our funding model
PIMFA response to FCA CP25/22 Modernising the Redress System
PIMFA response to Review of the Financial Ombudsman Service
PIMFA Under 40 Leadership Committee Report 2023 (December 2023)
Discover our 2023 Under 40 Leadership Committee report addressing accessibility for female clients, inheritance openness, the role of finfluencers, and financial planning trends