Opinion

I miss the lovely Mrs Merton. Remember that great moment when she sat on the settee and said to Boy George, 'Boy, I can call you Boy can't I? Karma, Karma, Karma chameleon, what was all that about then.'

Right, before you think this subject is a bit wacky, blame Scott Sinclair for this idea.

I've just read the article on IFAonline discussing the latest Plimsoll research entitled: 'Hundreds of IFAs in trouble as parallel with airlines drawn.'

If there was a competition to come up with history's ultimate oxymoron, then we would have to go a long way to beat pensions simplification.

Much of the trade press makes for amusing reading at the moment as we are at that time of year again when some of our industry's leading fund managers look to predict where the FTSE100 index will finish by the year end. This year however things are somewhat...

Much has, rightly, been made of the potentially debilitating effect the move to make the diploma the minimum qualification standard might have on scores of otherwise healthy firms.