Speaking with Financial Planning Today editor Kevin O’Donnell regarding the potential content for this column, things going on in my own business are always “hot topics” and fees and charges are one current issue.
Read more ...Nicola Watts: DB Pensions and the PI Challenge – are we in trouble?
- Friday, 17 March 2017
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Towards the end of last year I was invited to sit as part of a panel at a conference - a discussion on defined benefit pensions.
Read more ...Nicola Watts: Just flogging pensions is not enough
- Friday, 17 March 2017
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I read with interest the article online at Financial Planning Today which stated that the results of a recent Aegon study showed that 38% of respondents were not confident about their ability to retire comfortably and were unprepared in terms of pensions and saving to fund their retirement.
Read more ...Nicola Watts: Stop messing with pension tax relief
- Friday, 17 March 2017
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Once gain the question of whether there will be changes to pension tax relief raises its ugly head.
Read more ...Trott: Regulator has tarred our sector with scam brush
- Wednesday, 22 February 2017
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When I write a blog it can be a stream of words pouring out my head onto my laptop, but I do reread what I have written, and think about the impact of what I have said, I also spell check it and have others do the same for me.
Read more ...Nicola Watts: Financial Planners face FCA red tape nightmare
- Wednesday, 15 February 2017
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As the owner of a small financial planning practice I have been asking myself how on earth is a small business going to cope with a looming bureaucratic red tape nightmare?
Read more ...Bamford: We need more Financial Planners but CISI faces ‘real challenge’
- Monday, 13 February 2017
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We need more Financial Planners. To be clear, this isn’t some shady attempt at recruitment for my own business. Goodness knows that four of us is enough for now.
Read more ...11 steps for Life Planning by George Kinder
- Thursday, 02 February 2017
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Atkinson: Are Paraplanning and Financial Planning separate?
- Friday, 27 January 2017
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It’s all too easy to become distracted by the hysteria of presidents, prime ministers, politics and performance in this busy start to 2017.
Read more ...Claire Trott: Ruling could be key for IHT planning
- Wednesday, 25 January 2017
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Every year there is a warning out to those doing pension transfers that they need to be extra careful if the client may die within two years of the transfer because of ill health at the point of the transfer.
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