IFA

Asset managers and IFAs have countered active fund manager Terry Smith's warning ETFs are a "new investment fad" that investors misunderstand.

Another quarter, another social media phenomenon IFAs will be told to get onboard with. This time around, it’s Quora. It isn’t, as one asset manager thought, a vegetarian meat-alternative. It’s a social answering service that’s causing all the fuss.

Perspective Financial Group has made its 20th acquisition with the purchase of Leedham Independent Financial Advisers.

Almost a quarter of UK businesses have not begun planning the implementation of auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes in time for 2012, Aon Hewitt says.

Around a third of people see equity release as an important part of their retirement planning, but are not willing to pay fees for advice on it, according to the Equity Release Solicitors' Alliance (ERSA).

Alan Easter, strategy, product and development director at Honister Capital, has called on advisers to rally around AIFA during the transition to RDR and ignore those who make vocal exits from the trade body.

An Ipswich-based IFA this week staged a one-man protest against Chelsea Building Society for what he insists are 'misleading' claims about its investment products.

Joanna Faith talks to Tom Farrell about how he got into family mediation and why IFAs possess the perfect skills for this job.

Almost a quarter of IFAs say they are growing their businesses and have increased profitability compared to just 15% in June.

The vast majority of independent advisers see the RDR as a 'great commercial opportunity', although more onerous CPD and record-keeping requirements remain a concern, research suggests.