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Transferring clients’ assets between organisations can be a major headache – often time consuming, frequently frustrating and possibly uneconomic. The FSA has also confirmed that re-registration between nominee companies including all platforms will be compulsory from 1 January 2013. So how is the industry gearing up for 2013?
Two months left before the ‘real RDR deadline’ – are you compliant with the required professional standards under the RDR?
We all want certainty – and when it comes to auto-enrolment, advisers and their corporate clients want to know precisely what solutions their providers will offer. The wait will soon be over. We should have the final auto-enrolment regulations early in 2012, which means providers will at last be able to set out their exact solutions rather than their overall intentions.
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After 12 qualifying rounds in which 640 IFAs competed for a place in the final of The Investec Structured Products Open 2011, 56 players headed to Turnberry where there could be only one winner. Rob Kingsbury was there to report on the day.
Rob Burdett, co-head of Thames River Multi-Capital, highlights some of the challenges facing today’s income seekers and suggests that going back to investment basics can help provide the solution.
BuyAssociation provides informative and completely independent guides to buying property overseas, making purchasing a property overseas easier and safer. Details such as the most popular locations in which to purchase property in a country, to any legal or procedural issues to be considered are covered in detail and updated on a regular basis, along with advice for those looking for investment prospects or permanent overseas residence.
Investments generally carry two key risks, systematic risk and unsystematic risk.
M&G have announced a major step forward for the popular iView channel, which has seen it become an online platform in its own right.
Expect bigger, expect better – this is the ‘must enter’ event for IFAs in 2011. Gary Dale of Investec tells Rob Kingsbury about this year’s competition
The Traded Policies Fund invests in Traded Life Policies (TLPs)
UK’s leading provider of Telephone Answering Services suggests IFAs could be missing
ISA season is once again upon us and it would appear from the statistics from the Investment Management Association that there is in fact an ISA “season” to look forward to again.
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