Election 2010: Interview with Nigel Waterson
Conservative pensions spokesman Nigel Waterson outlines his party's plans should it triumph at the forthcoming General Election.
Planet Insurance: Long-term care
The politics of long-term care funding has become very contentious in the run up to the election and the debate has moved from a relatively rational debate on options for the future to emotive political point scoring.
Paraplanner Zone: Wayne Vernon, The Private Office
Wayne Vernon is a paraplanner at The Private Office, an appointed representative of AWD Chase De Vere. He says, while others dreamed of being astronauts, he knew he wanted to work in financial advice…
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me father, he son!
For the sake of clarity, Nick is the Chief Executive and Father, Martin is the son and Managing Director. I concede that he runs the business though!!
Posted by: Nick Bamford
IFA
I agree with Nick that this is vital. The problem lies with logistics in that a large national firm with 1000+ advisers would have to have the resources in place to accommodate the 'case conferences'. I used to work with the high net worth division of Prudential and this was an integral part of the process prior to presenting to the client. A small firm like Infomed Choice would find this easy comared to a large firm with a national influence. So I suppose small is really beautiful then??
Posted by: Ewart Matthias