Opinion

The adviser technology snowball is gradually gaining momentum. This is in part due to the vast amount of column inches now devoted to setting out how portals, platforms, wraps etc will assist in developing their businesses and help with transitioning...

It has irritated me for many months that people decide they will smoke outside my office in the covered area to hide from the rain. I do hope this will stop from the 1st July when the new law comes in.

There has been much debate in the trade press of late about how IFA's can increase their income streams.

In the wake of the recent damning Watchdog report on non-disclosure I wonder if the industry is going to react. It knows the majority of disputed claims is due to non-disclosure and that this is too high.

The Association of International Life Offices (AILO) have issued new business figures for the offshore market recently. They make impressive reading.

Wholly and exclusively. Sounds more like part of a marriage pledge than something to do with pensions tax relief. Yet these three words have already created more heartache than a thousand divorces.

Dodgy headline for a blog or what? Let me explain… Before I was in marketing I did lots of things in the administration side of the business I worked in. I only moved into marketing after nine years of working in the part of the business that speaks to...

The CML reports that first-time buyers are struggling to clamber onto the housing ladder.

The must-see programme of our youth - Top of the Pops has been consigned to the dustbins of our collective memory, as it was apparently no longer 'relevant' to the audience of today.

A piece of European legislation is posing a big headache for government and industry in working through the intricacies of pensions reform policy.