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'Changing family lives will increase demand for care'
Demand for long-term care will rocket by around 60 per cent by 2050, leading to a significantly bigger market for LTC insurance, a major research project has predicted. The research, conducted by the Cass Business School, in the City of London, and a Swedish economist has found that changes in demographics and the traditional family […]
Churchill is stepping down as ZFS life chief
Zurich Financial Services chief executive Lawrence Churchill is stepping down from his role as head of UK, Ireland and International Life businesses following a revamp of its management structure. He is being replaced temporarily by Global Life Insurance Businesses chief executive Paul van de Geijn until ZFS appoints a successor, who is believed to be […]
Brown aims to discourage pension saving, claims Altmann
Pension experts have accused the Government of actively discouraging pension saving to encourage consumers to carry on spending and maintain a buoyant economy leading up to the next general election. Speaking at last week's Money Marketing Live conference in London, independent pension consultant Ros Altmann claimed Chancellor Gordon Brown is deliberately making pensions an unattractive […]
Skills Council role misrepresented
Your article, Aifa brands Skills Council vague and inadequate, (Money Marketing, April 22), did not convey the Skills Coun-cil's position that the comments and queries of all of those in the industry regarding the exam review process will be add-ressed in detail in our feedback paper, to be issued in May. We have been pleased […]
Neptune video: Abenomics: the impetus for Japan’s fast-track recovery?
The remarkable performance of the TOPIX over the past year has caused many sceptical equity investors to look again at the Japanese market. These returns have come despite very significant problems facing the Japanese economy. Chris Taylor, manager of the Neptune Japan Opportunities Fund, discusses these problems and whether Abenomics will be able to overcome them, enabling the market to continue to rise.
In the video, Taylor addresses the following:
• The size and speed of Japan’s unprecedented monetary policy
• Abenomics and the implications should it fail
• Corporate Japan and beneficiaries of government policy
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Advisers waste five hours a week on menial tasks
Financial advisers waste almost five hours a week doing menial tasks, according to a study by adviser tech platform Advicefront. With an average hourly wage of £46.38, one hour in eight is spent on unnecessary tasks and costs advisers £220 per week in wasted time. The survey asked advisers how much time they spend weekly on […]
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Kim North: Let’s move away from ‘jobs for the boys’
Last week, the excellent Money Marketing Interactive Harrogate event took place, where I was fortunate enough to be part of the panel on diversity in advice. Last week also saw the 10th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers’ collapse. “If it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might look a lot different […]
Pension transfers fall to £8.2bn in Q2
The total value of pension transfers fell from £10.6bn in the first quarter of the year to £8.2bn in the second quarter, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show. According to AJ Bell, this is the first drop in value of pension transfers since the second quarter of 2016. The figures coincide with […]