Archives for 2022
Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 5-6)
Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that as part of the ongoing integration between the merged companies, Charles Schwab plans to transition advisors currently on the TD Ameritrade custodial platform to Schwab’s platform over Labor Day weekend 2023. And while Schwab executives […]
Editor’s Comment: A festival of fun and learning
Along with 2,500 other people, I was fortunate enough to attend the Personal Finance Society’s long-awaited Festival of Financial Planning this week. It was a hoot – an entertaining and heartening celebration of one of the UK’s most dynamic professions (yes that’s the one you are working in). After an absence of five years, […]
Editor’s Comment: A festival of fun and learning
Along with 2,500 other people, I was fortunate enough to attend the Personal Finance Society’s long-awaited Festival of Financial Planning this week. It was a hoot – an entertaining and heartening celebration of one of the UK’s most dynamic professions (yes that’s the one you are working in). After an absence of five years, […]
Editor’s Comment: A festival of fun and learning
Along with 2,500 other people, I was fortunate enough to attend the Personal Finance Society’s long-awaited Festival of Financial Planning this week. It was a hoot – an entertaining and heartening celebration of one of the UK’s most dynamic professions (yes that’s the one you are working in). After an absence of five years, […]
Mini-Budget fuels near record £7.6bn fund outflow
Investors pulled out £7.6 billion from funds in September, the eighth month of net retail outflows this year. Data from the fund manager’s trade body, the Investment Association, revealed that the September outflow was the second highest ever after March 2020 when outflows hit £9.7 billion as the pandemic hit. The IA says that there are […]
FCA blocks over 4,100 ‘rogue’ financial promotions
The FCA intervened on a record 4,151 financial promotions between July and September this year, the highest quarterly number since it started publishing the data. It forced the providers involved to amend or withdraw their promotions or advertisements. Investments, banking and retail lending were the sectors with the highest rate of amends or withdrawal of […]
FCA blocks over 4,100 ‘rogue’ financial promotions
The FCA intervened on a record 4,151 financial promotions between July and September this year, the highest quarterly number since it started publishing the data. It forced the providers involved to amend or withdraw their promotions or advertisements. Investments, banking and retail lending were the sectors with the highest rate of amends or withdrawal of […]
79% of consumers want Chartered Planner advice
Nearly eight out of 10 clients (79%) of a leading Chartered Financial Planner firm say that taking advice from a Chartered Planner is “essential” to their financial decision-making. A client survey for Chartered Financial Planner-led adviser group Fairstone also found that while too many consumers fail to start planning early enough the tide may be changing. […]
79% of consumers want Chartered Planner advice
Nearly eight out of 10 clients (79%) of a leading Chartered Financial Planner firm say that taking advice from a Chartered Planner is “essential” to their financial decision-making. A client survey for Chartered Financial Planner-led adviser group Fairstone also found that while too many consumers fail to start planning early enough the tide may be changing. […]