FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Advisers need to be confident that a prospective licensee will be around in the future if they are looking for a discounted licensee, according to a panel....

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Funds management

Sustainable dividends, a non-benchmark approach to selecting companies, and stock-specific hedging can help manage risks while generating equity income, according to Merl...

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Financial planning

The exodus continues among financial advisers offset in a small way by a modest but growing number of provisional advisers. ...

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Funds management

Investors can look to capture price movements, high yield markets, or extend duration if they want to maintain income levels to what they have been used to in the past, a...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are working harder and finding it harder to recruit new clients as they struggle to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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Financial planning

Investors are being over-optimistic with their return expectations and advisers need to manage these expectations to realistic levels, according to Schroders. ...

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Funds management

A panel made up of specialist ESG fund managers, advisers and analyst has warned that AMP is likely to pay a significant price for its recent controversy around governanc...

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Financial planning

The Government and the regulator are showing signs that they now understand they have gone too far in driving up the cost of financial advice, according to panellists at ...

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Financial planning

The Government should provide financial advisers with some flexibility with respect to opt-in arrangements as they seek to deal with another round of lockdown, according ...

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Financial planning

FASEA has opened for consultation its proposal to grant advisers an additional three months to meet the 40-hour CPD requirement....

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Financial planning

The adviser exodus from the industry has continued in the second quarter of the year, with more than 800 leaving the industry from the start of April. ...

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Financial planning

FASEA has confirmed the dates for the remaining 2020 exam sittings which will be held in August, October and November. ...

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Financial planning

If the Financial Planning Association can prove its proposals for individual adviser registration will hasten the development of a profession and the separation of advice...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s proposals to have adviser registration over-ride licensing has run into a backlash from key financial planning licensees who say they...

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Life/Risk

The efforts of many clients and their life/risk advisers to write Agreed Value income protection cover before the 1 April deadline were stymied by the job COVID-19 job lo...

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