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Investec Structured Products

On my daily commute, I tend to alternate between a good book and that all too rare a beast, the good television boxed set (there is, I have found after all, a limit to how many times I can watch The Sopranos).

The advice sector is, once again, in a state of flux.

The concept of an annuity has not changed in hundreds of years. In fact the first annuities sold were probably during Roman times where ‘annua' were sold for a fixed period or for life; but today's mortality is unprecedented in history. An annuity was...

Regardless of the many news articles now claiming there is light at the end of the recessionary tunnel, many businesses are still suffering with the dual burden of increasing debt and rising overheads.

Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson is going to sit back and enjoy developments in what is becoming THE place to be in financial services.

The FSA has announced what had seemed inevitable given the pressure on them to maintain high standards of suitability in the face of unprecedented consumer concern.

Six weeks from now will be a time for bonfires and sparklers, but it will also mark the end of the DWP's ‘blink and you miss out' consultation period on its latest set of regulations to implement the 2008 pensions act.

The looming deadline for implementation of the RDR will have prompted many an adviser to question his or her choice of profession.

I caught the tail end of the last episode of this series of Dragons' Den.