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As Ireland's fiscal situation worsens and it prepares to accept an EU bailout, M&G’s Richard Woolnough ponders solutions to the country's crisis.

Since the original Financial Services Act 1985 invented the concept, the word ‘independent’ has become the watchword among financial advisers.

Understanding how your clients progress from enquiry to product purchase is key to running a successful business, says Worldwide Financial Planning’s Peter McGahan

There seem to be a lot of areas where the UK financial services industry is all too keen to hop over the Pond and see what our American cousins have been doing.

Partnership MD Care Chris Horlick says headline figures that 20,000 people are selling their homes to fund care is just the tip of the iceberg.

After months of procrastination and frantic lobbying behind the scenes, the FSA has finally unveiled its latest thinking on platforms.

Much to the embarrassment of Mervyn King, UK consumer price inflation has been above 3% in every month so far in 2010.

US-based adviser Michael Kitces explains why financial planners must become consumers of the profession they practice if they want to be taken seriously.

I have often urged the wider financial services sector to engage more with Parliament and not leave all the lobbying to trade associations.

Julian Chillingworth, CIO at Rathbone Unit Trust Management, examines whether gold really is the answer to investors' prayers.