Cookery and gardening writers are more highly valued by their pub-lishers than personal finance writers, according to research by Stupidio.
It claims personal finance journalists sel-dom use their own knowledge, whereas cookery or travel writers relay their gut feelings. Shame on Stupidio – you don’t think we feel the same experience of, say, driving a Ferrari when writing about inheitance tax planning. Believe me, the ex-hilaration of baking a Rhubarb Fool cake doesn’t compare with writing about a new self-cert mortgage. Happy April Fool’s Day to all at Headline Money.View more on these topicsNews
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Blackrock brand holds top spot across European asset managers
Blackrock has been named most attractive brand among European asset manager firms, according to the annual report Fund Brand 50. The study, by corporate services company Broadridge Financial Services, monitors the influence of brand on third-party fund selection. Fund Brand 50 is based on intensive interviews with nearly 900 of Europe’s most significant fund selectors, […]
Four arrested as Serious Fraud Office probes collapsed mini-bond provider
Four people have been arrested as the FCA and Serious Fraud Office continue their probe into collapsed mini-bond provider London Capital & Finance. The firm fell into default in January, a month after the FCA issued it with an order to take down promotional material of the bonds, ruling they were “misleading, not fair and […]
Heather Hopkins: Young, aspiring financial planners need to be nurtured
Last week I met John, an aspiring financial planner who is less than a year into his job at a mid-sized IFA firm. John told me he had always wanted to be a financial planner. He’s interested in money; he wants to make some and he wants to help people manage theirs. He had been […]
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