Money Marketing
17 February 2011
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Rethink your client priorities
17 February 2011
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£18Bn funds in Chelsea's drop zone
17 February 2011
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40% Of firms that left Sesame cite RDR as reason
18 Feb 2011
Sesame Bankhall Group says 40 per cent of advice firms that left the network in 2010 did so as a direct result of the RDR.
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Aberdeen moves to high yield
17 Feb 2011
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Adviser Fund Index
17 February 2011
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Aifa says Nest shows factoring can work
16 Feb 2011
Aifa has called on the FSA to review its ban on provider factoring, pointing to Nest’s charging structure as a good example of how factoring can work in practice.
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Alyson Brown
17 February 2011
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Apology over rate errors on NPI site
17 Feb 2011
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Axa adds pricing tiers to cut fees for HNWs
17 February 2011
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AXA UK suffers £104m earnings drop
17 Feb 2011
AXA Wealth new business revenues up 41 per cent despite fall in group earnings.
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Bank notes
17 February 2011
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Banks strike deal to lend £76bn to small firms
17 February 2011
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Barclays calls for HNW advice to be exempt from RDR
18 Feb 2011
Barclays says advice for high-net worth individuals should be exempted from the RDR.
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Barclays in talks to sell commercial service arm
18 Feb 2011
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Barclays suing Savills in £12m loan case
17 February 2011
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Bearing up
18 Feb 2011
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Begg blocked in bid for women's pension debate
17 Feb 2011
The chair of the work and pensions select committee has criticised the Government for not allowing a debate about the effects of the rise in the state pension age on women.
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Best of British
17 February 2011
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Big Society Isas could be high risk
18 Feb 2011
Advisers have warned that Government plans for Big Society Isas appear to be a high-risk investment strategy that is unlikely to be suitable for retail clients.
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BTL bounce
18 Feb 2011
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Can F&C regain focus?
17 February 2011
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Canada Life pulls annuity guarantee at gender fears
17 February 2011
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Compliance director Ferris-Caley leaves Personal Touch
18 Feb 2011
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Discount value draws Unicorn towards trusts
17 February 2011
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Fear at impact of EU rules
17 February 2011
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FIB rings true
17 February 2011
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Fidelity Fundsnetwork picks 16 funds for Isa short list
17 February 2011
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Food for thought in Russia
21 Feb 2011
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Friends bonus blunder after system switch
17 February 2011
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FSP looks to simplified advice
18 Feb 2011
The Financial Skills Partnership wants to develop qualification standards for simplified advice.
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Fund groups losing their marbles
21 Feb 2011
Fund firms’ bloated charges are reflected in their lavish office floors and it is time to redress the balance, says Mel Kenny.
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Gems lose sparkle as weighting slashed
17 Feb 2011
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Hargreaves lowering stockbroking charges
17 Feb 2011
Peter Hargreaves concedes the firm’s stockbroking charges are not competitive and says the firm is lowering its prices.
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Hargreaves says Government must pay for regulation or FSCS
17 February 2011
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Harris quits Living Time after MetLife annuity deal
17 February 2011
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Hawksmoor switches from bond fund
17 February 2011
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Ian Lowes says structured plans have performed
17 Feb 2011
Lowes says those who dismiss all structured products as rubbish are “speaking from a position of ignorance”.
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IFA SOS for financial lessons in schools
17 Feb 2011
IFA firm launches financial education teaching programme it hopes can be rolled out in secondary schools.
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IFAs busting for apology from FSA in figure furore
18 Feb 2011
Advisers have called on the FSA to apologise for its manipulation of Financial Ombudsman Service complaint statistics to try to dispel IFAs’ claims they provide a better service than banks.
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IFS chief calls for axing of pension lump sums
17 Feb 2011
Paul Johnson of the IFS puts the case for annuity top-up payments as an alternative to the tax-free lump sum.
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IHT set to be axed on pension funds
17 Feb 2011
Treasury documents reveal plans to abolish the inheritance tax levied on the pension pots of individuals in ill health who delay taking benefits.
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In search of a plan B
18 Feb 2011
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'Indemnity cover key to securing FTB loans'
18 Feb 2011
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Industrial revolution needed for advisers
17 February 2011
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Investment and retail bank link needs radical surgery
17 February 2011
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L&G holds annual with-profit bonus rates for 200,000 customers
17 Feb 2011
Insurers freezes bonus rates despite assets returning 12.8 per cent over the year.
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Lloyds disappointed with delay to new approved persons regime
18 Feb 2011
Sales director of mortgages Mike Jones says FSA should not have delayed new AP regime, despite the extra pressure this would have placed on lenders.
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London Stock Exchange in £3.7tn Canadian merger
17 February 2011
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Merchant Securities buys GT Independent for £2m
17 February 2011
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Merger for friendlies
17 Feb 2011
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MetLife launches protected growth bond
16 Feb 2011
Bond allows investors to lock in investment growth on a daily basis.
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MM leader: FSA spins new myth with misleading comparison
17 February 2011
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Naismith urges flexible drawdown caution
18 Feb 2011
Scottish Widows head of pension market development says advisers should be cautious about recommending flexible drawdown until the FSA issues guidance on best practice.
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Nest auto-enrol for public sector is first step to full DC
17 February 2011
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Nest hunting for ethical monitor on fund factors
17 February 2011
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Omo law not priority, says pensions regulator
17 Feb 2011
TPR chief executive Bill Galvin says he will not push Govt to introduce legislation to improve take-up of the open market option.
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Out of Context
17 February 2011
“Bill and Ben are waiting for you in reception.”
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Pension reforms risk "mis-selling scandal"
16 Feb 2011
NAPF says Government must address state pension “means-testing trap” ahead of 2012.
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Pension regulator pledges tough line on enforcement
17 Feb 2011
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Performance anxiety
17 February 2011
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Plain and simple products needed
22 Feb 2011
Direct Life & Pension’s Neil McCarthy says by helping consumers benchmark what is simple, you also deliver a message about what is complex.
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Platforms are 'wolves in sheep's clothing'
21 Feb 2011
Insurance companies and fund companies with wrap platforms will be the biggest threat to advisers after the RDR, according to Simon Chamberlain.
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Prefab sprout could help meet demand
18 Feb 2011
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Protection faces knock-on effects of RDR
22 Feb 2011
Legal & General RDR and commercial director Danny Wynn says the retail distribution review will have a big impact on charging structures in the protection industry.
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Redraw the sector lines
17 Feb 2011
Nic Cicutti says consumer confusion over fund names needs to be sorted out.
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'Regulator is free to interpret FOS data any way it wants'
17 February 2011
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Relief roles
17 February 2011
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Rule shake-up to cost 10 times FSA estimate
17 Feb 2011
The FSA’s proposed changes to disclosure rules for pensions will cost the industry £200m rather than the £20m estimated by the regulator, says Ian McKenna.
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Serious complaint
18 Feb 2011
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Split over absolute return sector proposal
17 Feb 2011
Advisers providers are divided on IMA’s suggestion to link the absolute return sector with managed sectors in a bid to categorise the risk level of funds.
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Supposed necessity
17 February 2011
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Tech 2.0 has a solid business basis
17 February 2011
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Tech the way to survive the RDR revolution
17 Feb 2011
Ian McKenna says advisers must be able to harness new technology offerings to survive the RDR industrial revolution.
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Tech will boost restricted reach
17 February 2011
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The China syndrome
17 February 2011
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The dangers of trying to police products
18 Feb 2011
Lawyer Alasdair Sampson raises concerns about the FSA’s move towards protect regulation.
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The FSA myth makers
18 Feb 2011
Alan Lakey says most organisations would be embarrassed by such antics but the FSA pushes on like a zombiefied Duracell rabbit.
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The moving baseline
17 February 2011
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Think positive
17 February 2011
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Thorman finds flaws in FSA's 'vague' analysis
17 February 2011
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Which? wants bank advice probe after mystery shop
17 February 2011
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Wrap up the workplace
17 Feb 2011
John Greenwood says banks and life offices are set to clash over group pensions.
