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Plans underway for Financial Planning Week 2012
the board. Tools available during Financial Planning Week proved popular - with Prestwood/Truth offering a version of its cashflow forecasting software and Finametrica offering a risk profiling tool to enable usersto work out their own capacity for...
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My Business: Andrew Brook Dobson
you run? ABD: Document Management System – Volume from Watermarktech. Client Database – Adviser Office (1st) from Avelo. Cashflow planning – Truth from Prestwood. Each Monday we also have a weekly management huddle, a weekly team huddle and a weekly...
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Suffolk Life holds roadshows on pensions market
Floyd, the former editor of Pensions Management. Speakers will include Rollo Wilson on using property and pension as cashflow for small businesses and Claire Brooks on end of year tax planning. There will also be a speaker on platforms and the platform...
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Philip Congrave retires from Prestwood Software
to Prestwood for consultation for 12 months to ensure a smooth handover. He joined Prestwood in 1986 and pioneered cashflow modelling, a tool now used regularly by Financial Planners. Last year he introduced the regional mentoring programme which allows...
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Finding a better way of doing business
the basics right. Sessions will work though key elements of Financial Planning including Financial Planning assumptions, cashflow modelling, life planning, communicating the service to clients and managing your first meeting. To round off the day, coach...
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Surrey branch finishes 2011 with bubbly flourish
about planning assumptions to help clients achieve financial independence. In particular whether those we use in lifetime cashflow planning were relevant, adequate, reasoned and reasonable. Mike Morrison (AXA Wealth’s pension guru) then held the floor...
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IFP Scottish conference enjoys positive feedback from delegates
of Financial Planning software and tools in general. Sandy Robertson FIFP, CFPCM then proceeded to break down what using cashflow modelling actually meant in practice. The IFP’s view is that professional Financial Planning should be built on scenario...
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Ascentric offers Prestwood link on its platform
Institute of Financial Planning, in 1984 and is one of the leading adviser tools on the market. The software incorporates cashflow modelling tools to help clients achieve goals and objectives and record clients assets, policies, investments and...
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Financial Planning Week hailed as great success
page. Tools available on the Financial Planning Week proved popular with Prestwood/Truth offering a version of its cashflow forecasting software and Finametrica offering a risk profiling tool to enable users to work out their own capacity for risk....
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Tools available for consumers to work out financial plans
their financial ‘fitness’ and undersand the benefits of good Financial Planning. Key Financial Planning features such as cashflow forecasts and risk profiles are available for consumers to explore. There is a free version of the leading Prestwood/Truth...
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My Practice Week- Mike Stafford
accountant. Businessman planning to sell his business and phase his retirement over two years. We show him a preliminary cashflow projection and he is shocked to find that if he had taken the offer he was made four years ago he could have retired then....
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IFP Scottish Conference gets under way in Glasgow
plans while Ian Laverty will focus on marketing and Jonathan Gibson CFPCM will give an insight into joint ventures. Cashflow modelling will be unravelled by Sandy Robertson FIFP, CFPCM of Acumen Financial Planning On Monday evening there will be a...
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New Scottish chairman is welcomed by branch
over the longer term. This allows Acumen to offer a bespoke and individual solution for each client relationship of which cashflow modelling is an integral part. Branch chair Nicola Jackson commented: “Thanks to all our contributors for some great ideas...
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Report from Branch Chairmens' Day
on the core subjects which member feedback suggests people are looking for. Help with the Financial Planning process, cashflow modelling and fee charging were all at the heart of the thinking with an acceptance that gap filling and specific types of CPD...
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No lifetime cashflow? No comment....
plan helps drive and focus the service offered to the client and supported the statement that “if it ain’t got a lifetime cashflow, it ain’t a financial plan.” {loadposition user6} The branch is fortunate to have the IFP’s member number one, Paul...
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Cover feature: Fighting the headwinds
a tail of sectors seeing sharp rebounds – hence earnings growth (ex resources) is forecast at +13 per cent in CY11. Free cashflow yield is forecast at 6.4 per cent for CY11, a record, while the dividend yield is 3.8 per cent for CY11, based on the...
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Feedback from IFP membership survey
Planning firms. 66 per cent reported that the use of Paraplanners was important, with 65 per cent similarly rating use of cashflow modelling. A massive 74 per cent saw the use of wraps or platforms as important to their businesses. Also for the first...
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IFP wants to more than double membership by 2013 says Nick Cann
will also benefit from offering a distinctive professional Financial Planning approach built around core processes such as cashflow modelling. During the conference more details will be announced of the expansion initiatives at the sell-out conference...
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Five dedicated track sessions at IFP Conference to offer wider choice
only run on Tuesday 6 October and covers tax and Financial Planning with Tony Wickenden in the morning and the role of cashflow forecasts with Richard Allum CFPCM inthe afternoon. All of the sessions are worth 1.5 CPD points. The programme is available...
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Paraplanner options boosted at IFP 2011 Annual Conference
In the afternoon Richard Allum CFPCM from Paraplan Plus and Moneyscope will be talking about the risk and roles of cashflow forecasting. {loadposition user6} As well as this there will be two Paraplanning ‘Bridge the Gap’ sessions where delegates will...