A quarter of working adults without income protection would like to have it, according to financial resilience research from protection specialist LV=.
Read more ...Advisers face ‘difficult client conversations’ over cash gifts
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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The cost-of-living crisis is likely to increase the number of clients seeking to give lump sum cash gifts to adult children, financial advisers say.
Read more ...Hunt heading for pension triple-lock row
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to be drawn on whether the state pension will be uprated in line with the triple-lock.
Read more ...FSCS steps in as SIPP adviser fails
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has declared as failed a Midlands financial adviser hit with a string of claims related to pensions and SIPPs.
Read more ...Senior FCA exec Mark Steward to leave the regulator
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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Mark Steward, the Financial Conduct Authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, will leave the regulator next spring.
Read more ...New Financial Planning co-ordinator for advice firm
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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West Lancashire-based financial adviser Acumen Financial Partnership has appointed a new Financial Planning co-ordinator.
Read more ...What’s left from the mini-budget? More than you think
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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It was was a landmark government u-turn yesterday when new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget published by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng.
Read more ...Fidelity launches 2 bespoke funds for Financial Planner
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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Fund manager Fidelity has launched two ‘custom-designed’ OEIC funds exclusively for clients of Wolverhampton-based Chartered Financial Planners Howard Wright Financial Planning.
Read more ...Transact inflows drop but firm shows resilience
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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Adviser platform Transact has reported net inflows during the quarter to the end of September of £720m, down from £1.3bn on the same period in 2021.
Read more ...FCA restricts twice as many investment firms
- Tuesday, 18 October 2022
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The Financial Conduct Authority has this year restricted twice as many firms in the investment market as it did last year, it has reported.
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