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Nick Bamford, executive director at Informed Choice, has made a short video outlining five mistakes he believes his company made as it prepared for the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
While the thought of their children joining the family business leaves some advisers shuddering, others have encouraged their offspring to follow in their footsteps. What would you do?
Informed Choice chief executive Nick Bamford and chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning Nick Cann give their verdict on yesterday's Financial Services Authority meeting on the future of regulation.
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The FSCS, FOS and the regulatory environment in general are essential, but something is going "badly wrong" with the system, says Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford.
Spurred by criticism of its pro-RDR mantra, Surrey-based adviser firm Informed Choice invited advisers to spend the day with the company to learn how it operates. MD Martin Bamford outlines how the day went...
Informed Choice is inviting IFA businesses to a series of 'open days' where they can learn about how the company operates following "unfair" criticism over its pro-RDR stance.
Distribution Technology (DT) has launched a version of its risk profiling tool for the iPhone.
Checking the suitability of advice after it is delivered is akin to “putting the cart before the horse”, IFA Nick Bamford says.
In an extract from their book 'Get the Adviser Advantage: How to Survive and Thrive in the New World of Retail Financial Services', Nick Bamford and Martin Bamford explain that while advice and products are currently packaged for remuneration purposes, advisers need to unbundle this model to be RDR-ready.
In an extract from their book Get the Adviser Advantage: How to Survive and Thrive in the New World of Retail Financial Services, Informed Choice's Nick and Martin Bamford explain how to develop client-centric propositions.
In my blog last month I tried to brew up a storm with my suggestion that neither the public nor the regulator understood the difference between independent financial advice and independent financial sales.
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