Opinion

Once we have cleared away the snow and dusted down the latest consultation paper (CP 09/31) from the FSA on the Retail Distribution Review, the three year countdown will start in earnest.

When is a bank not like a bank? When Richard Branson is involved it seems...

Like a great many of us, I've been snowed in and without power - anyone would think I lived out in the wilds but no I am just a few miles from Henley on Thames.

The latest Legal & General Fundamentals video, exclusive to IFAonline, looks at what 2010 might hold in store for investment markets.

The demand for buying IFA practices has increased rapidly.

Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer at Rathbone Unit Trust Management, on a new era for bonds...

Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing for Friends Provident, hopes to see some better solutions for the pensions arena in 2010.

Do you think the FSA gives value for money, or would Conservative plans to transfer its powers to the Bank of England be a reasonable course of action?

My client Alan owns a building company that employs 47 people. He already has death in service insurance for his employees, and I'm trying to convince him of the need for an employee income protection (IP) policy. What are the arguments to extend this...

Simon Chamberlain, chief executive of Succession Advisory Services, says if anyone had mentioned IFA consolidation in early 2009, it was only as an unintended consequence of the credit crunch...