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The UK's departure from the EU, requiring regulatory adjustments to ensure financial stability and consumer protection.

Consumer Duty requires firms to act in the best interests of customers, ensuring fair outcomes and clear communication.

Where consumers may be more susceptible to harm, requiring firms to provide fair treatment, support, and tailored services.

Safeguarding data through secure processing, compliance with regulations, transparency, and preventing misuse or unauthorised access.

Protecting against activities like fraud, money laundering, and market abuse, threatening financial system integrity and consumer protection.

The UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of UK authorised financial services firms. It can step in to pay compensation if a firm is unable, or likely to be unable, to pay claims against it.

Evolving financial advice models, ensuring accessibility, affordability, and consumer protection in changing markets.

Regulation to enhance financial markets transparency, investor protection, and improving trading practices across financial sectors.

The increasingly complex pension landscape for firms as they navigate a changing regulatory environment.

PRIIPs (Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products) ensuring transparent, standardised information for retail investors on investment products.

Providing clear, accurate information to consumers about financial products, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.

SMCR (Senior Managers and Certification Regime) ensures accountability, clarifies roles, and enhances individual responsibility within financial services firms.

Integrating environmental, social, and governance factors into investment decisions to promote long-term positive impact.

Find out more to see how PIMFA is committed to promoting Talent, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (TIDE) in our industry.

This biannual survey of PIMFA member firms seeks to capture the real-world impact of regulation and the wealth management and financial planning sector.

Our policies and goals for creating a UK culture of thriving financial health.

Collaborating with legislators to shape the future of financial regulation.

This paper outlines how the private banking and wealth management (PBWM) sector contributes to the UK’s economy, and how the Government can further enable the sector to support national growth and drive better financial outcomes for consumers.

Technology using algorithms and data to enhance decision-making, improve efficiency, and manage risks.

CASS (Client Assets Sourcebook) rules ensuring firms safeguard and properly handle client assets and funds.

Protecting financial firms' systems, data, and customers from cyber threats through resilience, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

The use of technology to enhance shareholder engagement, communication, and information access in financial markets.

The ability to prevent, respond to, and recover from disruptions, ensuring continuous services.

Transitioning to a new UK settlement cycle where financial transactions are completed one business day after the trade date.

Compliance with tax laws and promoting transparency.

Processes involving buying, selling, and transferring ownership of financial instruments, ensuring transparency and efficiency.

The obligation for firms to report details of financial transactions to ensure market transparency and integrity.

PIMFA’s Committees are a place for decision and action. They focus on deciding PIMFA’s strategies and work plans; agree positions and campaigns; and outputs from these add value to our members and their clients.

PIMFA’s Forums & Briefings are available to all members and provide updates on recent activities and announcements from the PIMFA team and provide behind-the-scenes details on initiatives and policy and regulatory changes in the market.

PIMFA’s Working Groups are a place for members to discuss projects, consultations, publications and campaigns in relevant policy areas.

Celebrations of the best and brightest in our industry

Content-rich one day events with packed speaker agendas and cutting edge thought leadership

Opportunities to connect with industry peers and expand your network

Interactive in-person sessions curated to specific delegate cohorts

Large scale flagship events cutting across multiple cohorts and disciplines

See past events.

Short, deep dive conversations with experts on the topics that matter most to you.

PIMFA Live Learning provides highly interactive, real time sessions led by industry experts, giving participants the opportunity to engage directly, ask questions, and gain practical insights they can apply immediately.

Stay informed of the latest regulatory, compliance & risk issues impacting your firm

View our past webinars on demand.

AI is reshaping wealth management, but many advice firms are stuck at the exploration stage. This one-day in-house training course prepares your leaders, managers, and team members to transition from curiosity to confident adoption, providing practical insights into how AI supports client service, compliance, operations, and investment advice.

PIMFA in partnership with technology specialists SEI, law firm Farrer & Co. and advisory firm Square 4, brings together, in a series of dinners, invite-only events, live webinars and podcasts scheduled over 12 months, regulators, acquirers, sellers, and PE firms to help you cut through the M&A noise and uncover the key trends, challenges, and factors shaping the M&A space in Wealth Management.

PIMFA’s monthly Wealth Management Financial Crime Compliance Learning Programme ensures senior managers, MLRO/DMLOs, Heads of Compliance, compliance officers and legal professionals don’t just keep up to date with key changes and regulatory deadlines, but develop the clarity, direction and insight they need to design an effective and efficient anti-financial crime control framework that protects their firm, creates value and enhances revenue opportunities.

PIMFA’s Committees are a place for decision and action. They focus on deciding PIMFA’s strategies and work plans; agree positions and campaigns; and outputs from these add value to our members and their clients.

PIMFA’s Forums & Briefings are available to all members and provide updates on recent activities and announcements from the PIMFA team and provide behind-the-scenes details on initiatives and policy and regulatory changes in the market.

PIMFA’s Working Groups are a place for members to discuss projects, consultations, publications and campaigns in relevant policy areas.

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Each of these portfolios contains different proportions of UK equities, international equities, bonds, cash and alternatives to reflect the investment aims of UK wealth managers. The changes in their values (i.e. the movement up or down of the UK shares, international shares, bonds etc) are represented by the movements of the related indices.

View recent/historic asset allocations for the Morningstar PIMFA Private Investor Index Series.

Further Information – Morningstar PIMFA Private Investor Index Series

Each of these portfolios contains different proportions of UK equities, international equities, bonds, cash and alternatives to reflect the investment aims of UK wealth managers. The changes in their values (i.e. the movement up or down of the UK shares, international shares, bonds etc) are represented by the movements of the related indices.

See details of recent and historic asset allocation changes to the Morningstar PIMFA Equity Risk Index Series and other useful resources.

Further Information Morningstar PIMFA Equity Risk Index Series

PIMFA's staff cover a variety of aspects at PIMFA from expert technical guidance to membership support and much more.

PIMFA’s Board governs the workings and strategic direction of PIMFA led by our Chairman, Lord Deben, and CEO, Liz Field. It consists of leading senior figures from a representative sample across the breadth of our membership

PIMFA Groups consist of committees, forums, briefings and working groups which provide an opportunity for individuals from our member firms to discuss relevant topics within our industry and examine issues such as Financial Crime, Regulation, Taxation, and much more.

PIMFA provide the Secretariat to the FCA's industry-led working group to focus on enhancing sustainable finance capabilities within the financial sector.

An independent group of retail platforms working together to drive positive change. Run by platform firms, for platform firms.

Sustainable Finance & ESG is an area of strategic focus for PIMFA making sure we are championing a high standard for our future.

PIMFA’s annual report is a review of our purpose, activity and key achievements over our membership year which runs from 1st June to 31st May.

PIMFA Plus offers our full and associate member firms a suite of valuable services and curated products at bespoke rates from specialised partners that work with PIMFA.

Job opportunities at PIMFA.

Use our online directory to find a PIMFA member firm who can help you manage your money, buy and sell shares and access financial advice.

If you are thinking about investing in financial instruments or seeking financial advice you can use our ‘Find a Firm’ service to search for a PIMFA member firm.

See how you can protect your investments from criminals seeking to abuse the system and how to find reputable, regulated firm.

This page contains frequently asked questions about the savings and investment industry.

Links which may be useful to you such as regulators, exchanges, trade associations, other resources etc.

Full members provide a range of financial solutions including wealth management, financial advice and planning and execution services. They assist everyone from individuals and families to charities, pension funds, trusts and companies. 

Associate members provide professional services to the PIMFA community.

PIMFA’s Committees are a place for decision and action. They focus on deciding PIMFA’s strategies and work plans; agree positions and campaigns; and outputs from these add value to our members and their clients.

PIMFA’s Forums & Briefings are available to all members and provide updates on recent activities and announcements from the PIMFA team and provide behind-the-scenes details on initiatives and policy and regulatory changes in the market.

PIMFA’s Working Groups are a place for members to discuss projects, consultations, publications and campaigns in relevant policy areas.