FSA retail markets managing director Clive Briault told an FSA conference this week that identifying firms making slow progress with TCF by March and “bringing them to the stage” will be central to its supervisory work.
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Base rate rise could cost borrowers almost £300m
Egg warns that today’s 0.25% increase in the Bank of England’s base rate could cost borrowers £292m.It says the eight million people with standard variable rate mortgages could collectively be paying substantially more a month more on their mortgages, or on average around £35.92 each.However, Egg says that many people could actually reduce their mortgage […]
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Ihave focused on one of the Miton Optimal funds – the strategic fund – already. It has had a hard time this year due to a big cash bias and its limited ability to buy into alternative asset classes. Miton therefore proposes to launch the Arcturus fund, which will be a non-Ucits retail scheme taking […]
Johnson Fleming's fundraising challenge for CLIC Sargent
Johnson Fleming’s current charity of the year is CLIC Sargent: the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families.
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AFH chief executive: ‘We have no intention of slowing down on acquisitions’
AFH chief executive Alan Hudson on leading the industry’s most prolific advice firm consolidator After announcing four acquisitions in just two weeks earlier this month, AFH chief executive Alan Hudson knows the market has questions about the sustainability of the group’s success. AFH is becoming a mainstay of adviser-press headlines as it continues buying up […]
Pensions minister: ESG rules will help demystify pensions for younger savers
Auto-enrolment has transformed saving and new regulations will help the pensions industry keep up. In 2012, pensions saving ebbed to a new low. Just 42 per cent of eligible private sector workers were participating in a workplace pension. Just six years on, that figure has soared to 81 per cent. The impact of auto-enrolment has […]
How are advisers handling client questions on crypto-currencies?
Michael Klimes examines the sceptical attitude advisers take towards crypto-currencies Unregulated investments can take diverse forms in the UK, from burial plots near Birmingham to storage pods in Blackburn. In more exotic locations such as the Caribbean, property is popular, while so-called “ethical crops” have lured investors to Africa. While these have been on advisers’ […]
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