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Despite an increasingly busy fourth quarter for many in the industry, it is unlikely to have escaped too many people's notice that the possible impact of the "Solvency II" directive on annuities is already attracting a lot of negative and nervous attention....

Axa protection guru Graham Harvey says one way to bridge the protection gap may be to start hitting consumers with the facts...

Jeremy Mugridge, platform marketing manager for Skandia, looks at where adviser demand for platforms will be focused in the coming months.

It's been a year since the launch of the new welfare reform system in the UK, which was designed to get more people off State support and back into the workplace. But has this change been for the better?

Dull Thursday morning, but then something brightens my day!

Much has been said since the latest RDR consultation about the cost and time it will take for advisory business models to make the transition to accommodate adviser charging.

All very well Ray, but doesn't this make it more difficult for advisers and customers to make product comparisons where providers are using different growth rates?'

If I go to a protection conference these days and don't find myself frustrated on at least two occasions, I feel like something's wrong...

Hard on the heels of losing badly on points in the high court on Friday, the government now faces the prospect of being defeated in Parliament over its wretched attempts to wriggle out of paying compensation to those who lost out in the collapse of Equitable...

So what's it all about?