The main UK regulator of investments, their providers and their promotion is the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA). Many alternative investments, however, are unregulated, although the promotion and selling of them will often be a regulated activity. As most alternative investments are unregulated, if anything goes wrong the […]

On 4 July 2016, Standard Life Investments suspended trading as a result of investors flooding the gates for redemptions. Several other funds such as M&G and Aviva Investments followed suit throughout the same week. The decision to suspend redemptions by these large property funds has triggered discussions surrounding the fate of the property market and […]