Opinion

While many of us prefer to ease ourselves gently into a new year, the same can't be said of Grant Shapps. The housing minister has been busy causing a stir, tackling the controversial topics of house prices and mortgage availability.

AT8's Mark Loosmore examines the impact of Mortgage Brain's acquisition of TrigoldCrystal.

Tom McPhail gives his top five pension risks for 2011

In 2011 the danger is the Euro system will put too much pressure on too many weaker countries and economies.

This week's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group to discuss the impact of the RDR on IFAs attracted a lot of interest from MPs and a full public gallery

Stephen Message, manager of the OMAM Equity Income and Extra Income funds, looks into his crystal ball for what may happen next year

The end of the year usually brings the obligatory look-backs and crystal ball gazing into the 12 months ahead.

Martin Davis, Openwork CEO, takes stock of a difficult year for advisers and their clients

Advisers in New Zealand have formed a working party to look into the potential misselling of qualifying recognized overseas pension schemes (QROPS). Rex Cowley, head of marketing at Close Asset Management, gives us the lowdown...

David Trenner, technical director at Intelligent Pensions, examines the risks to clients of unqualified overseas salesmen.