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Most IFAs are ready and willing to take on the distribution challenges of depolarisation and meet requirements to maintain an independent status, suggests research from software and services developer Focus Solutions.

More than half the nation sees compulsory pension contributions as a possible solution to tackling the country's £57bn pensions shortfall, suggests research.

More IFAs than ever are submitting business electronically, yet almost all that are still rely on paper application forms that are re-inputted back at the office, research from The Exchange suggests.

An online tax assessment service is being launched next month to help financial advisers and planners gain additional business from introducing their clients to a tax specialist.

Answers to some of the questions put recently users of Origo's UNIPASS digital certificate technology present somewhat unexpected findings.

With sales of individual income protection remaining moreor less stagnant, can the product ever become the solutionproviders hoped it would be? Johanna Gornitzki reports Click here to download pdf

Crashing share prices in the bear market did not cool the relationship between pension schemes and their fund managers, according to a joint survey of members of the IMA and the NAPF.

Scottish Life has introduced an online voting tool to its BeeHive website to give IFAs another platform for expressing their views on key pension issues.

Rising house prices have sharply boosted the number of UK millionaires says the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Property Investment Funds will succeed and will result in significant additional funds invested in residential and commercial property, a survey suggests