Last week the Government scrapped its plans to allow those with existing annuities to cash them in by selling them on via a proposed secondary annuity market. When the idea was first...
(This is an excerpt from my weekly newsletter commentary on 9th October) In my commentary last week I talked about how the future of financial advice is bright. It was a popular piece and I received some fantastic feedback from many of you.My comments were very much focused on the...
Last week I was asked to give a talk on how financial advisers can engage with consumers online. The members of the audience were young financial advisers, trying to plough their...
You may not have realised but last Thursday (15th September) was 'Pension Awareness Day', a day dedicated to raising awareness of the need to save for your retirement. As I wrote...
Last week the proposed pension advice allowance took a step closer to becoming reality. The idea was first sounded out in the Budget but had to be reviewed by the...
Many of you may have heard me on the radio this week as I was interviewed by 10 different radio stations, one after the other, which have a combined reach...
I was sat having a coffee with a friend trying to explain the tangled web that is the cost of financial advice and how people end up being charged for...
Last week saw the announcement that savers withdrawing money from their pension pots could face a maximum exit charge of just 1%, under plans released by the Financial Conduct Authority...
In this week's podcast (Episode 83) I reveal a scam that has seen UK consumers lose over £125 million. The reason for its success is that it's amazingly simple yet...
When will they stop messing with pensions? Governments have a nasty habit of tweaking the pension system, be it the state pension or the rules governing personal pensions. George Osborne in particular loves to tinker and was rumoured to be preparing another pension revolution in his imminent Budget. In the...
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