The Confederation for British Industry's claim that NEST will be deserted by workers fleeing the 2% charge is "absolute rubbish", Tom McPhail says.
Hargreaves Lansdown recorded a 12.8% rise in assets under administration over Q1, as its Vantage platform posted £1bn of net new business.
China has been getting more headlines than its emerging market peers over the last few months but advisers are urged not to believe the hype and overlook other attractive regions, such as India.
A last-minute rush to accelerate the payment of bonuses ahead of April's introduction of the 50p tax rate for high earners is under way, amid mounting anger by top executives over the squeeze on their take-home pay.
Faced with prohibitively expensive products, advisers are shunning long-term care.
Paul Burgin looks at the new Special Annual Allowance Charge on pension contributions.
Hargreaves Lansdown has posted a 16% jump in adjusted pre-tax profits for the six months to end 2009, to £43.1m.
The basic pension contribution allowance could be the next target in the Government's plans to cut pension relief, according to Tom McPhail.
Artemis Strategic Assets, Cazenove Absolute UK Dynamic and Jupiter Absolute Return made the top 10 bestseller list through Hargreaves Lansdown's direct to consumer Vantage platform for the whole of 2009.
Retirement has become a major political battleground in the run up to the general election, according to Tom McPhail.