Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that a recent study has found that while total financial advisor headcount across all channels only increased by 0.3% in 2023, the RIA space showed significantly more strength, with 10.4% growth, as breakaway brokers and new […]
Archives for January 2024
Editor’s Comment: Has Financial Planning failed?
Financial Planning Week, the CISI’s annual consumer-focused campaign to promote the benefits of professional financial advice, kicks off on Monday. It’s the first time it is taking place in chilly January as it’s usually held in Autumnal October. Let’s hope the shift rejuvenates a campaign which has become a little low key in recent years. […]
1 in 4 adults snub financial advice – even if free
Nearly one in four UK adults (23%) say they would never seek financial advice, even if it was free. The findings appear in new research to coincide with the launch of Financial Planning Week 2024 which kicks off on Monday. The research suggests widespread consumer avoidance of professional financial advice and significant numbers of […]
Söderberg takes ‘significant’ stake in Chartered Planner
Major Swedish wealth manager Söderberg & Partners has taken a “significant” minority stake in expanding Bath-based Chartered Financial Planner Fidelius as it continues its UK expansion drive. Söderberg says the deal is one its biggest investments in the UK and its seventh stake-building deal in the UK Financial Planning and wealth management sectors. The cost of […]
Reporting of digital assets as cash delayed until IRS issues regs.
In an announcement posted Tuesday, until regulations are issued, the IRS said businesses do not have to include digital assets in determining whether cash received in a single transaction is over the $10,000 reporting threshold.
Goldman Sachs netted $349M ‘gain’ from Creative Planning deal
The megabank’s Personal Financial Management transaction helped drive some record metrics in 2023 for its wealth and fund segment.
Designing “Custom GPTs” With Advanced ChatGPT Features To Enhance Advisor Capabilities With AI
In late 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven, natural-language processing tool that offered the public the ability to conduct seemingly human conversations with a chatbot and generate a seemingly endless array of sophisticated content, including essays, emails, computer code, meal plans, fictional stories, and song lyrics, to name just a few. ChatGPT’s […]
1 in 2 to work longer due to lack of retirement income
Half of workers in the UK (49%) plan to work beyond State Pension age, with the average person now expecting to push back retirement to 72. This is two years older than in 2022, according to a report from Canada Life. Over half (52%) of those over the age of 55 said they planned to […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to be deposed in Texas facial recognition case
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg must take part in a deposition as part of an ongoing lawsuit in Texas involving the company’s facial recognition technology
Former IA CEO to chair new FCA ESG adviser group
The FCA has named former Investment Association CEO Daniel Godfrey as chair of its new sustainable finance adviser group. Julia Dreblow, founding director of SRI Services, has been appointed vice-chair. The new working group has been tasked with helping to build, “capability in sustainable finance across the financial advice sector.“ The Personal Investment Management & Financial […]