Articles by Tom Ellis
Initiative for Financial Wellbeing partners with Aegon
‘Not just a sponsor’
Unbiased changes subscriptions to four-tier service
Existing customers can stay put
Take a selfie: Novia launches biometric verification for client documents
Biometric verification
White label adviser platform provider Fundment secures £3.4m funding
‘Onboarding two firms a week’
Beaufort Financial appoints new head of advice
Niall Humphreys retires after 35 years in industry
FCA unveils 'flexible' Gabriel replacement RegData
Firms to be moved in stages
Square Mile and FE fundinfo launch food label-style Fund Dashboard for advisers
Investment consulting and research firm Square Mile has teamed up with FE fundinfo to produce “easy to interpret” fund dashboards for financial advisers.
Fairstone adds sixth firm to acquisition programme in 2020
Adds five advisers
Advisers can defer CPD this year in 'exceptional circumstances' - FCA
Defer to 2021/2022
Firm that advised clients on unlisted shares among 12 declared in default by FSCS
London-based Saxon Capital, which advised clients to invest in unlisted shares of company Oxford Renewable Fuel, has been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) among 11 others in April.
Advised platform market AUA down 12% in Q1 shows adviser resilience - the lang cat
'Due to three factors'
Four financial advice firms and a DFM fall into FSCS in March
One 'Ponzi scheme'
SJP withholds third of dividend as coronavirus crisis hits AUM by 13%
AUM drops by £15bn
Fairstone adds two advice firms to its acquisition programme
Adds 1,000 clients
Be-IQ launches 'first' end-to-end behavioural insight service
Behavioural personas
Parmenion tops the lang cat's quarterly platform ratings
Praemium second
Tributes paid to SIPP and SSAS pioneer Geoffrey Pointon who died after contracting coronavirus
'Larger than life figure'
FCA must re-think investment pathways 'long-term income' option - EValue
FCA board to make decision
Tom Ellis: Adapting to a different way of living
Stick together
Regulator temporarily softens 10% drop notification rule for coronavirus crisis
Three guidelines to follow
The lang cat offers free access to hub of platforms' 10% MiFID rule strategies
The lang cat has made parts of its platform analyser available for free so financial advisers can see how platforms are dealing with the 10% MiFID notification rule, which has been much-used in recent weeks.
PA360 pushed back to 20 July
Retained majority of speakers
CII postpones April exams - Financial planning RO6 and pension transfers AF7 set for July
Follows government announcement
Vanguard launches low-cost SIPP for D2C market
0.15% account fees
Tom Ellis: A bizarre moment for Royal London to end its Ascentric platform journey
Outside the family circle
The good guys shouldn't pay: Help us campaign to change FSCS levy system
Supported by PFS, PIMFA and Penney
Tom Ellis: Let's hope the platform market winds are changing
A storm has caused havoc in the adviser platform market over the last couple of years, says Tom Ellis, but advice firms will no doubt be expecting to see some sunshine soon
Revealed: The multi-asset shortlists for the 2020 PA Awards
Professional Adviser is proud to announce the multi-asset shortlists for the 2020 PA Awards, the winners of which will be announced at a black-tie dinner in February.
One week until PA's 2020 Multi-Asset Roadshow
Financial advisers have just one week left to sign up to one of PA's five regional Multi-Asset Roadshow events it will host around the country.
Kerry Nelson: Why we IFAs should sell more protection
Like many others, Kerry Nelson has been making the argument that the industry needs to advise and instigate more protection for more than a decade. Here, she explains why more advisers should get involved in the protection game...
Mattioli Woods on the look out for more advice and pension firm acquisitions
Financial advice firm and wealth manager Mattioli Woods has sought to begin 2020 on the front foot by stating it is on the look out for more acquisitions.
Quilter completes £445m sale of assurance business
The sale of Quilter's life assurance business to ReAssure has been confirmed.
Revealed: Fourth set of shortlists for the 2020 PA Awards
Over the course of this week Professional Adviser has revealed the majority of the shortlists for our 2020 PA Awards, the winners of which will be announced at a black-tie dinner in February.
