Opinion
The FSA published its annual consumer survey last week. It’s often a dull read – mainly because little ever changes in the public’s perception of providers, products and the FSA.
Pensions minister Steve Webb angered IFAs recently when he said he did not want small employers to seek ‘expensive’ auto-enrolment advice. But do advisers want the business?
It’s not difficult to imagine what your typical retail fund investor might say if asked whether he or she believes they are being charged fairly (especially if you know this person reads the Sunday papers).
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Here's a New Year puzzle for you. Fund A has annual charges of 1.5%, and in addition incurs annual trading costs in its portfolio of 0.2%. Fund B also has charges of 1.5% a year, but its trading costs are 0.4% a year. Which is better value for money?
Will the public ever accept an invoice for financial advice? Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, says a new form of polarisation appears to be evolving…
Understatement coming up: Stephen Gay was not universally welcomed as the director-general of the Association of IFAs (AIFA).
Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, thinks it highly unlikely future generations will consider these among the pension glory days...
Last year's promised changes to regulation - which have long been going on in the background - gripped financial services publicly.
The platform market has undergone permanent change this year. Regulation and, more specifically, charging rules helped carve out a new platform landscape.
Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Richard Saunders has criticised some media reports about fund manager fees as misleading and irresponsible.
Another year draws to a close and, amid the hideous market turmoil and the ongoing lack of regulatory clarity, the platform sector seems set to post some impressive numbers.
The best excuse coming out of last year’s MPs expenses scandal came from the lips of Anthony Steen.
The German central bank told me in no uncertain terms last week it was not printing Deutsche Marks, despite growing speculation - and a number of sources - pointing to the contrary.
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