Nucleus Financial

Nucleus Financial has launched a free online capital gains tax (CGT) tool for its business platform, in response to adviser demand.

Following Skandia's u-turn on platform-to-platform re-registration I will forever remember June 2009 as the month in which some real clarity emerged.

Aegon has won an innovation award for its 5 for life retirement product.

Given all the discussion around whether a SIPP is a real SIPP or not according to the investment selection and the now impending changes to the investment freedom of protected rights pensions, is it not time to abandon the ‘asset class'?

I don't know if it's just me but the segmentation of the wrap market seems to have taken a further turn in the last few days.

Not sure if it's just me that has a good laugh about this, but I've managed to spend an amusing late morning musing on the latest results announcements from Aviva and Standard Life.

It seems I'm a little late with this but perversely it has given me the opportunity to have a wee chuckle at some of the very recent goings on in the sector.

So, four weeks on, what's changed? To pick out two of the biggest news items is a bit tricky as there seems to have been a lot going on. On that basis I'll grab the two things that tickled me the most.

Aside from starting to build the Nucleus business and checking out Emily Perryman's latest beer unit count, the main areas of interest in my regular IFAonline blog are likely to now be just the regulatory approach to wrap and the evolving thoughts of...