This year, at least since March for obvious reasons, has been a wipe-out for Financial Planner events culminating in the postponement of the Personal Finance Society’s much-anticipated Festival of Financial Planning.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: First signs of recovery?
- Friday, 10 July 2020
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Last weekend I went out to a restaurant for dinner for the first time in four months. It was fabulous. I’d forgotten what a pleasure it was to be served good food in a decent restaurant. I’d also forgotten how much it costs. Ouch!
Read more ...Martin Bamford: Why I fear the 'perma-offended' brigade
- Thursday, 09 July 2020
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Martin Bamford: Why AI will transform Financial Planning
- Thursday, 09 July 2020
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My new car can drive itself. When driving past Stonehenge last week, in the usual stop-start traffic caused by the heritage site rubberneckers, I flicked on 'autopilot.' Read more ...
Nicola Watts: What Covid-19 has forced us to do
- Monday, 22 June 2020
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It’s been on our “to do” list for months, maybe even a couple of years. We’ve deliberated over what it should look like, what it should do and how we would use it. We’ve looked at no end of options out there and we’ve completed the due diligence.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Why financial journalism needs supporting
- Friday, 19 June 2020
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A few years ago I carried out a research project for another publisher and we worked out that all the personal finance magazines put togther would equal only a fraction of the circulation of Women’s Own.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Why face to face client meetings will return
- Friday, 19 June 2020
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Financial Planners has adjusted remarkably quickly to remote working and video meetings with clients but it has not been easy for some and in many ways is just a speeding up of trends we have seen over recent years.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Crypto buyers defy common sense
- Friday, 19 June 2020
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We were treated to some astonishing figures from the FCA this week as it attempts to grapple with the huge growth in people buying cryptoassets.
Read more ...Guest Column: 5 Adviser Tech Innovations in lockdown
- Friday, 19 June 2020
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As dawn broke on 17 March, we sent out the bat signal to the moneyinfo crew to implement our business continuity plan, writes Tessa Lee, MD of fintech moneyinfo.
Read more ...Guest Column: 3 must-haves for socially-distanced planning
- Friday, 19 June 2020
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The pandemic is impacting different sections of society in different ways. For example, a recent study by Legal & General suggested that 1.5m people plan to delay their retirement because of Covid-19 and its financial impacts.
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