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Adviser insight: Sustainability of retirement income

Five questions to ask hopeful DFM partners

Does your firm 'wow' clients with its customer service? Do you take your social responsibility as seriously as your advice? Then Professional Adviser is pleased to welcome you to enter our Gold Standard Awards 2015.

Barclays has set aside an extra £800m to cover the costs of a probe into foreign exchange rate-rigging, its latest results reveal.

Brooks Macdonald has seen an increase in its funds under management over its financial third quarter, driven by new discretionary business.

All advisory firms face the prospect of an interim levy from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in 2015-2016 following a swell of claims related to self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs).

Single out what clients actually want and only charge for that, rather than 'pandering to the wealthy' with expensive packaged bank account-style add-ons, an advice firm has said, as it launched its 'manifesto' for the coming years.

Five unintended consequences of pensions freedom

A clampdown on suspected tax avoidance among taxpayers with rapidly rising wealth has netted HMRC an extra £11.5m since it began targeting the group in 2012, according to calculations.

Does a percentage-of-assets adviser fee model encourage contingent charging? Do fixed fees represent the ‘modern, professional way' to charge?