Personal Investment Authority. The PIA regulates the way in which some financial products are marketed, promoted and sold.
The Personal Investment Authority (PIA) regulates about 4,000 firms, including independent financial advisers, which advise on or market retail investment products or act for private investors in relation to such products. It is the main regulator of firms advising on and arranging deals in life assurance and personal pensions, friendly society investments, unit trusts and investment trust savings schemes.
The Personal Investment Authority, which regulates the way in which financial products are marketed, promoted and sold.
Personal Investment Authority. Self-Regulating Organisation which was responsible for authorising and policing independent financial advisers and other firms marketing financial products and services. It has now been absorbed into the Financial Services Authority under the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
Personal Investment Authority. A body that until 2001 regulated independent financial advisers and anyone marketing retail investment products to the general public. Subsumed by the Financial Services Authority.
Personal Investment Authority is a self-regulatory authority that is concerned with the regulation of all types of investment that is aimed at or marketed to private investors with a view to insuring that these invstors are treated fairly.
Personal Investment Authority. The former main regulator of the retail financial services industry, reposnsilble for authorising and policing independent financial advisers and other firms marketing financial products and services. It has now been subsumed into the Financial Services Authority under the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
Personal Investment Authority. SRO created in 1994 to focus on the needs of retail investors. It has now taken over the role of FIMBRA and LAUTRO whose members have applied to join PIA.
Personal Investment Authority now part of the FSA.
Personal Investment Authority. This was the organisation that dealt with the rules on how firms can advertise and sell financial products, such as pensions. This is now the responsibility of the Financial Services Authority.
Personal Investment Authority. The self regulating organisation responsible for personal pensions and unit trusts.