Chris Hutchinson, fund manager at Unicorn Asset Management, outlines the risks and benefits of investing in unlisted companies...

In the fourth of a six-part series on preparing for RDR, Bruce Moss, strategy director at Advisa Centa, offers some advice on determining your clients' attitude to risk.

I write with regret that the income protection (IP) quality standard (QS) has been abandoned.

Misconceptions exist about what social media actually is and how it can be used by the protection industry as a sales and marketing channel. Christopher Tuite explains

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks:Are you preparing your clients for the roll-out of auto-enrolment?

Ian Aylward, senior portfolio manager at Aviva Investors, reveals what you need to consider before allocating a portion of client assets to absolute return funds.

Tracey Evans, associate partner at Ashley Law Crawley, explains why she would be lost without her paraplanner.

Matthew Stephens, head of product and sales technical at Prudential, explains how to overcome limitations of the capital gains tax annual exemption.

Jason Kirk, senior compliance field manager at SimplyBiz, explains how to get the most value out of your compliance visits...

Jason Hepner, CFA, investment director of global strategy at Standard Life Investments, steps up to our Soapbox