Investors in the former Woodford Equity Income Fund will receive an additional £183m, meaning a total of almost £2.5bn will have been distributed to investors since the fund began winding up.
Read more ...Fintech entrepreneur joins IWP to chair investment management
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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Former head of investment strategy at Brooks Macdonald and Moola founder Gemma Godfrey has joined Independent Wealth Planners as non-executive director overseeing investment management and consumer insight.
Read more ...Former SJP COO writes post pandemic crisis management book
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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Jonathan McMahon, former chief operating office at St James’s Place, has written a book on the Coronavirus pandemic and how with purposeful leadership the 2020s does not need to be a “decade of crises or lost opportunities.”
Read more ...AJ Bell urges Govt to lead on Pensions Dashboard data
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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Investment platform AJ Bell said the Government must ensure state pension data is available on the first version of pensions dashboards when they are launched in the UK.
Read more ...Pros and Cons of employee ownership for Financial Planners
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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Financial Planning firms should consider employee ownership as a possible succession or growth/values opportunity, according to law firm Stephens Scown.
Read more ...Investment scams rise 49% in July
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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Reports of investment scams rose 49% to a record high in July at banking giant Barclays, the highest ever number recorded.
Read more ...55,000 CTF accounts set to mature each month
- Thursday, 20 August 2020
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HMRC says that 55,000 Child Trust Fund accounts are set to mature each month from September.
Read more ...Experts welcome Supreme Court pensions IHT judgment
- Wednesday, 19 August 2020
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Industry experts have welcomed a Supreme Court judgment today on the long-running Stavely case which found that there was no IHT liability when a pension transfer was made for reasons of ill health.
Read more ...Transact tightens rules on £30k+ pension transfers
- Wednesday, 19 August 2020
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Investment platform Transact has tightened up its rules on pension transfers following the FCA’s campaign to tackle problems with poor transfer decisions.
Read more ...CPI inflation rises sharply to 1% defying predictions
- Wednesday, 19 August 2020
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CPI inflation rose sharply in July from 0.6% to 1%, data from ONS published today shows.
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