Expect exodus from large wealth managers to continue – IFP
Financial services professionals will continue to leave wealth management heavyweights in favour of the relative freedom of smaller firms, according to IFP chief executive Steve Gazzard.
Financial services professionals will continue to leave wealth management heavyweights in favour of the relative freedom of smaller firms, according to IFP chief executive Steve Gazzard.
The Personal Finance Society has written to the UK Government calling for increased protection for clients who insist on cashing in their pensions against the advice of a financial adviser.
The Association of International Life Offices (AILO) has launched a free guide on investing in cross border life assurance policers to help individuals approaching retirement age make decisions about how to use their pension pots.
The sharp decline in the number of UK financial advisers over the past five years halted last year but the cost of advice has gone up, an industry survey has found.
A fraudulent “clone firm” has been trying to con BlackRock customers out of their money, the Financial Conduct Authority has warned.
Lower service charges may not necessarily be on the cards, but IFAs must provide value for their percentage, according to the head of Brown Shipley’s Manchester office Jon Sherlock
Britain’s Conservative Party has vowed to reform inheritance taxes in a bid to counter the Labour Party’s promise to abolish the ‘non-domicile’ regime as the UK election campaign heats up.
BlackRock has launched what it is has described as the first UCITS fund to track the 300 plus large and mid-cap stocks listed on the MSCI China A International Index.
The Common Reporting Standard is the latest building block of regulation in the march towards a global automatic exchange of information, and financial institutions must get to grips with it.
UK-based financial advisory network, Sesame, has given its members three months to decide whether to take one of its “preferred routes” or leave the group.
Half of all UK financial advisers contact their clients just once a year regarding their investment portfolios, new research has revealed.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), a leading professional organisation for the insurance and financial services sector, has launched a new programme to help financial planners get up to date with the latest UK pension reforms.