Key Retirement Solutions has agreed to take equity release referrals from the GHL Group. Last week, the FSA called for advisers that do small amounts of business to pass leads to specialist firms or quit the market.
Relaxing times
Continuing to look at the amendments to this year’s Finance Bill
Loan broker rebuked for failing customers
The FSA has publicly reprimanded a mortgage broker for failing customers. In the first such disciplinary case against a senior manager of a mortgage and general insurance broker, the regulator found Essential Mortgages Limited chief executive Steven Leslie Davis to have “fallen well below acceptable standards in the way that he carried out his duties […]
Name change put forward for ‘elitist’ PMI
Private medical insurance should be renamed because it is too elitist, say protection experts Peter Le Beau and Andy Couchman. Couchman proposes to change the name of PMI to medical insurance or health insurance. He also proposes to rename long-term care insurance as care fees insurance and waiver of premium as premium skip but see […]
Banking on a boost for income
John Duffield says equity income is one of the most important asset classes for New Star and he has given fund manager Toby Thompson a vote of confidence despite recent underperformance. Thompson runs higher income, which is 48th of 72 funds over three years, returning 56.8 per cent compared with an average of 61 per […]
Doing the right thing – why value-added services matter
By Amanda Docherty, marketing manager More people than ever are living with critical illnesses like cancer. And this will only increase as the years go on. In fact, the number of people currently living with cancer is expected to grow from 2.8 million to at least 4 million by 2030*. Improving survival rates are, without […]
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Investment insight: Are you clear how your ATR tool works?
The regulator says advisers need to know how tools work, but many lack confidence and knowledge
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VouchedFor: FCA directory could see more ‘bad’ advisers being picked
The proposed FCA directory that will include advisers’ details could see more people finding “bad advisers”, according to adviser review site VouchedFor. A LinkedIn article by VouchedFor chief executive Adam Price says this is because the regulator’s consultation paper pitching the directory suggested little around underlying adviser checks being substantively improved. In the article, Price says: […]
Cold-calling pension firm shut down
A pension company that invested in storage products with investors’ savings has been ordered into liquidation by the High Court. Kent-based Chartwell Trustee Pension Solutions was the sole trustee of the Pinnacle Pension Scheme. Chartwell amassed in excess of £4.8m of members’ pension funds following an apparent cold-calling telesales operation. Members were told to expect 8 […]