Quietly and gradually the FCA is changing and not before time.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: A different kind of regulator? Hopefully…
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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Editor’s Column: Inflation threat will destabilise 2022
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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I suspect more than a few lovers of red wine, myself included, winced when we heard the Chancellor planned to add the best part of 50p to a bottle.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Will hybrid kill the robos?
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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I am not surprised by the findings of a new survey which suggests that the over-50s are cold-shouldering robo advice.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: A Financial Planning life well lived
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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I was saddened this week, as I’m sure many of you were, to learn of the untimely death of veteran Financial Planner Carolyn Gowen at the relatively young age of 58, just a few months after she retired.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Beware toxic Tweets
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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Social media can be a curse as well as a blessing, as people are now realising.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Why FCA is putting on steel-capped boots
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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The FCA, finally, is putting on its big boots in an effort to intervene much sooner when it spots the regulatory bad boys trying to rip off savers.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: A bad rap for reps?
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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At last we finally know who was to blame for all the faults in the financial advisory sector over the past 20 years - it was the appointed reps all the time. Or was it?
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Freedom to make a mistake
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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The Pension Freedoms were introduced in 2015 by Chancellor George Osborne and were hailed, at the time, as a “pensions revolution” and the biggest changes to pensions in a century.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Time to clean up on laundering
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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Picture the scene: a moderately busy suburban branch of a High Street bank in early 2015. A motor cycle courier arrives. He is carrying a large bin bag full of cash, the wads carefully wrapped.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: The Planning express needs to avoid derailment
- Friday, 15 October 2021
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First things first: Happy New Year. I hope it’s a good one for you, your business and your clients.
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