Editor's Comment: Why SJP is far from an evil empire
- Friday, 20 September 2019
- Comment
St James’s Place Wealth Management has recently been hammered in the press, particularly by the Times, over its incentive schemes. At the risk of being hung, drawn and quartered I believe the criticism has been over-done.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: Powwow? Wow!
- Friday, 13 September 2019
- Comment
If you’d told me 10 years ago that Paraplanners would don warpaint once a year and happily gather to chew over technical issues in a giant teepee in Northants I might have suggested you’d been smoking the peace pipe a bit too long.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: Why the robo threat is growing for planners
- Friday, 06 September 2019
- Comment
Until now Financial Planners have treated the threat from robo-advisers as a limited one - and they have been right to do so - but that attitude may need to change, according to a recent report.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: ‘Evil’ transfers can be right thing to do
- Friday, 30 August 2019
- Comment
There is a common mis-conception that Defined Benefit transfers are the scourge of society, an inherent evil that must be stamped out. This is far from true.
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