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Maria Merricks asks three industry experts which alternative asset class has been the best performer over the past 12 months.

Suffolk Life's head of marketing discusses with Retirement Planner the FSA's focus on SIPP due diligence

Six months on from reforms and in a sustained period of market volatility, Fiona Murphy looks at how advisers should tackle the issues that income drawdown presents

Claire Barker goes through the results of the latest ERSA research on how clients are using equity release

Chris Read looks at changes in the disclosure landscape in the run-up to RDR with a focus on adviser charging, and asks the question: Is this all moving fast enough to get systems in place to automate these changes?

Steve Latto looks at the main points you need to be aware of when advising a client on the process for making an unquoted investment within a SIPP

Andy Zanelli takes us through the complex world of enhanced and primary PCLS protection

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) gets criticised for everything from focussing too much on insurance brokers to losing exam papers. But when you have a question, who are the people behind the royal charter picking up the phone? Laura Miller finds...

Ken Rayner, investment director of Rayner Spencer Mills, discusses the outlook for the property sector and identifies six star performers.

Skerritts' head of investments Andrew Merricks asks if there are any ‘safe' investments out there as the eurozone hurtles towards a messy denouement.