Money Marketing
4 October 2006
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Lomax quits Misys after failed MBO
5 Oct 2006
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3bn review for contracting out
5 Oct 2006
Pension firms battling against full-scale probe
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A blurring of styles
5 Oct 2006
The US equity arena has been the graveyard of many an aspiring fund manager. It is notoriously difficult to outperform the US equity market consistently - a fact to which many UK-based US equity managers can testify. The resulting shortage of supply often tempts US-based houses to come over to the UK to try and fill the gap.
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Aifa backs the FSA focus on providers' responsibilities
5 Oct 2006
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Allianz launches pan-European fund range for UK market
9 Oct 2006
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AMPs accuses the Government of enforcing discrimination through back door on ASPs
4 Oct 2006
The Committee of the Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes says it is gravely concerned at the FSA's new requirement for IFAs to carry out research into a client’s religious background when advising clients on ASPs.
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Auction for mortgage leads
5 Oct 2006
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Auction for mortgage leads
5 Oct 2006
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Auto acceptance with L&G system
5 Oct 2006
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Bankhall axes commission staff
5 Oct 2006
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BlackRock merges with Merrill Lynch
5 Oct 2006
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BM aims for one-hour remortgage completion
5 Oct 2006
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Bolton says another downturn looming
5 Oct 2006
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'Bonds at risk under Ucits III'
5 Oct 2006
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Bonds beat the budget
5 Oct 2006
Offshore business Simon Hildrey says sales are booming after overcoming concerns about a new tax regime
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Brogue trading
5 Oct 2006
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Broker severs BNP link
5 Oct 2006
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Broker Talkback
5 Oct 2006
Do you support Prudential's crackdown on churners? Yes: 43%No: 57%
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BSA's amazing attack on the Woolwich
5 Oct 2006
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Burgess leads £20bn claim chase in PPI sector
5 Oct 2006
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Capita appoints Bill Grimsey as new NED
6 Oct 2006
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Carr joins Cordea Savills
9 Oct 2006
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Cash change could hit the reinsurers
5 Oct 2006
Protection premiums to fall if FSA frees cash reserves for life offices
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CII unveils Advanced Diploma
5 Oct 2006
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Claim jumpers
5 Oct 2006
Now is the time to fight back and stop claim firms walking all over us
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Client types will be gradually merged
5 Oct 2006
Multi-manager round table: reports by Matt Goodburn
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Competitiveness could become FSA objective to deter gold-plating
5 Oct 2006
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Competitiveness could become FSA objective to deter gold-plating
5 Oct 2006
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Consumers are failing to pick suitable protection
5 Oct 2006
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Contracting-out conundrum
5 Oct 2006
It is with no pleasure that Money Marketing this week warns of a 2.8bn contracting-out problem which could hit the industry.
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Cooper urges lenders to join Homebuy plan
5 Oct 2006
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Correspondent's Week
5 Oct 2006
One of the supposed pleasures of being self-employed is that you can organise your own time, rather than stick to office hours. This week, I have plans to change my working week radically. I am going to start at 6.30am with the aim of clocking off at 2pm. This should allow me to power through my work first thing and log off after lunch when my brain slows like a computer with clogged-up memory.
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Debt damage
5 Oct 2006
The steep rise in unsecured debt has implications for lenders, especially banks
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Defaqto deal for Find
5 Oct 2006
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Did you stay up?
5 Oct 2006
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Ehrmann's Jupiter China fund to target growth in domestic demand.
10 Oct 2006
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Ex-police squad offers to solve IFA cold cases
5 Oct 2006
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F&C shutting Aim fund
5 Oct 2006
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F&C shutting Aim fund
5 Oct 2006
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Fidelity International appoints chief administrative officer
4 Oct 2006
Fidelity International Limited has appointed Simon Jeffreys as chief administrative officer, responsible for finance, operations and product development.
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Fidelity seeks distributor status for funds
5 Oct 2006
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Focus on Protection
5 Oct 2006
Royal London's profits from new business grew by £22m in the first six months of this year compared to £37m for the full year in 2005. The provider is now the UK’s largest mutual life and pensions company since Standard Life's demutualisation was completed in July.
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Focus on Protection
10 Oct 2006
How do you solve a problem like IPI asks Defaqto's report on income protection which made for gloomy reading last week.
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Focus points
5 Oct 2006
How advisers can use customer-focused marketing techniques to strengthen client relationships
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FOS says it's flavour of the month for legal challenges
5 Oct 2006
Merricks says onset of legal claims and judicial reviews 'will not rock the foundations' for the watchdog
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Friends Provident appoints new finance chief
10 Oct 2006
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FSA allows flexibility in unit pricing
4 Oct 2006
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FSA urges firms to read its guidance to prepare for change
10 Oct 2006
The FSA says reading its guidance will save firms time and effort when preparing for regulatory changes.
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Gartmore MBO completed
5 Oct 2006
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GE could ditch loan portfolio
5 Oct 2006
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GE Life adds to annuities website
6 Oct 2006
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Go to work on an ego
5 Oct 2006
The line-up of fund managers for Skandia's UK best ideas fund is now unveiled and it is time to see whether this galaxy of stars can shine as brightly as their awesome reputations suggest
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Greater focus on fund performance
5 Oct 2006
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Hard acts to follow
5 Oct 2006
Canada Life technical manager Peter Carter says three Finance Acts have failed to provide true simplification of the pension tax regime and many IFAs and consumers are still confused over its workings
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House prices on the up again in August
9 Oct 2006
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Hutton says tax relief not his territory
5 Oct 2006
Labour conference: Paul McMillan reports from Manchester
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IFAs demand more best ideas launches
5 Oct 2006
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IHT hit for homeowners in eight years
9 Oct 2006
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ING enters mortgage market with direct offering
9 Oct 2006
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Interest rates held at 4.75 per cent
5 Oct 2006
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International markets shrug off North Korea nuclear test while local markets suffer
10 Oct 2006
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Is property starting to get shaky?
5 Oct 2006
Property has become the increasingly favoured asset class for many investors over the last few years and money has been pouring into UK property funds.
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IT could drive your business forward
5 Oct 2006
Find out how the latest technology can help your business and be in with a chance of winning a car
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It pays to be persistent
5 Oct 2006
Helen Pow says educating clients is vitally important for retaining and growing business for advisers
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Japan set for a quick recovery
5 Oct 2006
Of all the world's major stockmarkets the only one to fall in real terms from the beginning of this year to September 13 has been Japan which, in terms of the Topix Index, fell by 4 per cent but is now recovering.
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John Lewis and Friends link for life deal
5 Oct 2006
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Jorma Korhonen
5 Oct 2006
Fidelity's new global special situations fund manager has the toughest act in the fund business to follow in taking over from Anthony Bolton but he says he wants to get the message across to investors and advisers that the fund is all about absolute returns and he is not averse to taking substantial risk. Interview by Philip Scott
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Jupiter boosts UK sales team
5 Oct 2006
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Keydata says criticism of its US property bond 'missed point'
5 Oct 2006
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Lawson blames actuaries for DB 'bungs'
5 Oct 2006
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Legal plan for payouts despite non-disclosure
5 Oct 2006
Law Commission proposals would introduce non-contestability after three years
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Lenders look abroad for a green example
5 Oct 2006
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Loansome traveller
5 Oct 2006
Offshore mortgages: RBS International chief executive Ian Henderson explains to Philip Scott how he targets potential markets and why borrowers should be careful of speculating in foreign markets despite the lucrative deals often portrayed in TV property programmes
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Lomax quits Misys after failed MBO
5 Oct 2006
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Look for the unloved
5 Oct 2006
The unloved, the unglamorous and the misunderstood can all be great buying opportunities
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Lutine in mass move with indemnity PTA
5 Oct 2006
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Motivation behind exams for chasers
5 Oct 2006
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Multi-manager is now in the mainstream
5 Oct 2006
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Multi-managers split over meeting fund individuals
5 Oct 2006
Multi-manager round table
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Network Data looking at move into lending
5 Oct 2006
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Network Data may set up lending company
5 Oct 2006
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Network Data triples profits
5 Oct 2006
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Network Data triples profits
5 Oct 2006
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New pension rules could drive out small Sipp firms
5 Oct 2006
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New ScotProv form aims to cut non-disclosure
5 Oct 2006
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New Star loses £10m as online gambling sinks
5 Oct 2006
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Newcob on block
5 Oct 2006
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Old Mutual makes UK equity, bonds and US fund manager changes
10 Oct 2006
Old Mutual Asset Managers has axed five fund managers in an overhaul that will see the group’s quants team take on a greater investment role.
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Only churn if it means better value
5 Oct 2006
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Openwork moves into motor, pet and travel insurance
4 Oct 2006
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Osborne rejects calls for tax-cutting plans
5 Oct 2006
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Osborne rejects calls for tax-cutting plans
5 Oct 2006
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Out of context
5 Oct 2006
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Out of our debt
5 Oct 2006
It is difficult to remember the world that existed before the introduction of credit cards in the UK. Barclays was the first and that was over 40 years ago.
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P/e lessons
5 Oct 2006
Dividend yields are not the only value that an investor might hope for in holding equities as the vast majority of companies earn profits significantly higher than that required to maintain or even increase their dividend payments
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Pensioners in danger of "burn-out", warns new Fidelity research
4 Oct 2006
Nine tenths of workers approaching retirement are in danger of burning through they savings well before they die, according to new pensions research from Fidelity International.
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Pole position
5 Oct 2006
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Poll shows brokers want Widows on board Ship
5 Oct 2006
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Portillo says IFAs have a duty to avert crisis
5 Oct 2006
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Positive Solutions points to £80m float bonus deal
5 Oct 2006
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Premium rate
5 Oct 2006
It now appears that valuing a life policy placed in trust will need to have regard to the premiums paid
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Prime Professions in PI deal for IFAs
5 Oct 2006
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Prime Professions in PI deal for IFAs
5 Oct 2006
A group of former Alexander Forbes directors has set up a professional indemnity brokerage for IFAs.
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Product matters: Royal approval
5 Oct 2006
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RBS picks new mortgages chief
5 Oct 2006
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Record results for Helm Godfrey
5 Oct 2006
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Relative values
5 Oct 2006
You will have read about the treating customers fairly initiative, the regulator's big theme of 2006. In September, the FSA published a discussion paper called, The Responsibilities of Providers and Distributors for the Fair Treatment of Customers.
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Release failing to reach owners' children
5 Oct 2006
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Resolution appoints McAleese to UK equities desk
4 Oct 2006
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Rising demand for flexible homeloans
5 Oct 2006
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Rising demand for flexible homeloans
5 Oct 2006
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Royal Liver's guaranteed CI cover follows ABI guidelines
5 Oct 2006
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Senior management reshuffle at HBOS
5 Oct 2006
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Ship shape
5 Oct 2006
The pressure is being piled on Scottish Widows to join equity- release trade body Safe Home Income Plans. A Money Marketing poll reveals that over two-thirds of our readers think Widows should join. Last month, Widows was ordered to change its Key Facts Illustration by the FSA after faults were uncovered.
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Shop talk
5 Oct 2006
About 15 years ago, shortly after becoming a journalist on this newspaper, I had an interview with a life office senior executive.
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Short circuit
5 Oct 2006
The sub-prime mortgage market was always expected to be the source of most problems after regulation but the FSA also has misgivings about the prime sector.
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SimplyBiz member meetings see record bookings
10 Oct 2006
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Sipp warning on halls of residence
5 Oct 2006
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Size up the situation
5 Oct 2006
Key Retirement Solutions business development director Dean Mirfin says downsizing does not have to be the only route for equity-release clients and he tries to assess the FSA's compliance view on the matter
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Sour grapes over Poso charges
5 Oct 2006
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Standard Life teams up with UBS for Sipp offering
5 Oct 2006
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Standard plea over net business figures
5 Oct 2006
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Standard sets aside £100m to pay for post-float exodus
5 Oct 2006
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Standard wants protection cover for NPSS
5 Oct 2006
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Summit set for pensions minister to explain reforms
5 Oct 2006
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Super-mutual has rivals in a sweat
5 Oct 2006
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Sweetener and sour
5 Oct 2006
Transfer incentive business is risky and could come back to haunt advisers
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Switch way is the next churn?
5 Oct 2006
McCarthy surprised many in the industry by seeming to morph into industry analyst Ned Cazalet while making a speech to pension industry leaders at Gleneagles. He called for urgent changes to the financial services distribution model, which he says is failing consumers, providers and advisers.
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Takeover will cut competition
5 Oct 2006
In last week's column, Mark Harris concluded that the "merger" of Nationwide and Portman would be positive for consumers in the short term but negative in the long term. It is worth returning to the subject as I think it will also be negative for consumers in the short term.
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TCF tool to record complaint rates
5 Oct 2006
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TCF tool to record complaint rates
5 Oct 2006
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Tech battle hots up as Kensington offers free AVMs and e-IDs
4 Oct 2006
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Tenet chairman Kayes retires
5 Oct 2006
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The churning tide
5 Oct 2006
The FSA wants action taken to stem churning but is it always gratuitous?
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The fastest marketing man in the west?
5 Oct 2006
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The IVA league
5 Oct 2006
Going bust is booming, says chm:ping joint managing director Rupert Pybus, and aggressive marketing of individual voluntary agreements is one of the main reasons for hundreds of thousands seeking a way out of debt problems
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The mist clears
5 Oct 2006
Here we are in October - that most unpredictable of months. Big stockmarket shakeouts happen in October. The Great Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Yom Kippur war in 1973, Black Monday in 1987 - all happened this month. This is meant to be the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. It is also the month when seasoned investors are on the lookout for banana skins and the fact that, at the end of September, Wall Street reached its highest levels since 2000 will probably heighten investors' ...
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The name aim
5 Oct 2006
On October 1 the Association of Investment Trust Companies is becoming the Association of Investment Companies.
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This week in Mortgages
6 Oct 2006
Poor old Woolwich got a good kicking this week from the Building Societies Association.
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This week in Politics
9 Oct 2006
The stormy shores of Dorset were not the most inviting of places last week for anyone trying to wring financial services policy details out of David Cameron's cuddly sunshine Tories.
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Threadneedle picks UK equities chief
5 Oct 2006
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Tories claim IFAs are being scared off Asps
5 Oct 2006
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Tories claim IFAs are being scared off Asps
5 Oct 2006
Conservative conference: Paul McMillan reports from Bournemouth
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Tread carefully on Ucits III
5 Oct 2006
Multi-manager round table: reports by Matt Goodburn
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Treasure islands
5 Oct 2006
Our panel discuss the range of incentives offered to investment businesses based in Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man
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Treasury takes an interest in offset
5 Oct 2006
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Under the influence of providers
5 Oct 2006
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Value is lurking in Japanese smaller companies
5 Oct 2006
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Value of ongoing advice
5 Oct 2006
It's in both your interests to bully clients, in the nicest possible way, into having regular financial reviews
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Volatility drives choice of ETFs for iFunds global Fof
5 Oct 2006
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Whitechurch aims at bigger IFA firms
5 Oct 2006
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Widows highlights plight of graduate FTBs
6 Oct 2006
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Widows is slashing 200 jobs in customer services division
5 Oct 2006
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Winterthur upgrades portfolio projections
5 Oct 2006
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Woolwich launches City Bonus mortgage
10 Oct 2006
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Zurich launches discretionary discounted gift trust
6 Oct 2006
