YES: Does loyalty pay? Usually, the resounding answer is "definitely not" when it comes to financial products - but this is not the case in all scenarios.

LV= income protection product manager Martin Sincup says advisers should push IP providers to reveal their claims stats.

Gary Potter and Rob Burdett, co-heads of Thames River Multi-Capital, on how their investment process is a mix of "art, science and the intensive application of common sense".

Frustrated with your business? Feeling stressed at work? Matt Anderson of The Referral Authority offers some reassuring tips.

Skandia International and Fairbairn Private Bank were among the major winners at the Professional Adviser International Fund & Product Awards 2011.

Morgan Stanley has unveiled its FTSE Gilt-Backed Growth Plan 9, offering investors the potential for returns of 7% p.a. with reduced counterparty risk.

The stage of life when people even consider taking out protection insurance is changing and advisers must react, says Friends Life protection head Graham Harvey…

Is it possible for an IFA business to completely trust a third party which may have values at odds with its own? David Ferguson, CEO of Nucleus Financial, doesn’t think so…

Most of the financial planning solutions we have reviewed to date have tools that the vendors will sell directly to IFAs as well as corporate organisations.

David Hesketh, group M&A manager at Perspective Financial Group, offers his tips to getting your business in order.