The chief executive of life and investments provider Royal London has renewed his criticism of proposals to tax income saved into pensions like an ISA.
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Advisers are moving clients' assets away from old-style fund supermarket platform giants that typically favoured rebates, ahead of next April's switch off of the payment method, according to research by Platforum.
Nucleus has warned some advisers are drastically underestimating the impact the end of platform-based commission will have on their businesses, and suggests it could cut their profits in half.
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Software firm Intelliflo plans to launch a simplified advice service for advisers.