Fund manager Neil Woodford, whose retail fund empire crumbled less than two years ago, is to stage a comeback with a new investment business.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Could LCF have been spotted earlier?
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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There is little doubt that in 2018 the FCA’s call centre was in a mess. Demoralised, poorly trained staff were inundated with a barrage of calls from consumers, some of them angry and abusive, even racist and homophobic.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: One man's drive for redemption
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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Redemption is a powerful force and it is likely to be the driving force behind fallen fund manager Neil Woodford’s unexpected comeback plans revealed this week.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Face to face meetings should return
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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Should Financial Planning firms insist that staff are vaccinated before returning to face to face client meetings? It’s a question that many planners will be wrangling with but one firm has taken the lead.
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Super Sunak or Tax-raider Rishi?
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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So was he Super Sunak, saviour of the British economy, or Tax Raider Rishi, the man who launched a tax grab we’ll be paying for well into the 2030s?
Read more ...Editor’s Column: Will you still need me when I’m 64 - and sick?
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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The Beatles’ famous song ‘When I’m 64’ includes the lines “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?” It’s a question many have asked but the answer, at least from a State Pension point of view, is increasingly a resounding no.
Read more ...PFS to review apprenticeship standards
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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The Personal Finance Society and parent body the Chartered Insurance Institute are asking Financial Planners and Paraplanners to help review apprenticeship standards.
Read more ...Prestwood launches free cashflow tool for consumers
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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Financial Planning software provider Prestwood has unveiled a consumer cashflow modelling tool.
Read more ...Unique Financial Planning launches HNW division
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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Unique Financial Planning has launched a new wealth management arm in Surrey to target expansion in the HNW market.
Read more ...Standard Life brand could be sold - reports
- Friday, 12 February 2021
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Standard Life Aberdeen may be ready to sell off its 175-year-old Standard Life brand to acquisitive life insurance group Phoenix Group.
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