Opinion

You wouldn't hire a barrister to do a conveyancing job yet, in financial planning terms, day in day out, highly qualified financial advisers the length and breadth of the country continue to do just that by carrying out their own account admin.

Barclays Wealth director Colin Dickie explains which structured products are the most popular in the current climate.

For some unknown reason I have developed an insatiable appetite for autobiographies in middle age.

The Future Adviser Programme is a 6-week summer internship giving a top-down look from the manufacturers view all the way down to the advisers face-to-face meetings with clients, and everything in-between.

It never fails to surprise me just how hard it is to ensure customers understand exactly what they've bought.

With news that one in five complaints received by the Pensions Ombudsman are attributed to pension transfers and that this number has doubled since 2007-08, it means that yet again the issues surrounding what constitutes sensible pension advice have come...

The Financial Times' David Stevenson

It was difficult to know what to expect when I started the Future Adviser Programme with Aviva. The programme is designed to promote the financial advice profession to university graduates, in anticipation of the current Retail Distribution Review.

Do you think that any standardisation of qualifications for advisers will improve public trust in the insurance industry, leading to an uptake in the amount of people seeking independent advice?