Opinion

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Income protection should be one of the first protection products considered as part of financial planning for people below retirement age. This is a comment I'm sure you've read before and I have no doubt you'll read again.

I recently had to go at one of those psychometric tests. You know the ones where some human nature theory is linked to 200 questions, all of which are intricately cross-referenced, to give an insight into your character, using a series of letters like...

The day has arrived when I reveal my true opinion of the IFA market, and having worked in this arena now for the best part of nine years there's certainly been a lot of change.

Time is a strange construct; sometimes it seems to go ever so slowly and other times far too fast. In the world of pensions, this is further confused by the fact that a year does not always last 365 days.

I went to a presentation by a fund manager about 18 months ago and one of the topics addressed was that of inflation. He detailed that he had concerns about the re-emergence of inflation and that it was 'a lonely corner' when in discussion with other...

Our industry has an unfortunate reputation for shooting itself in the foot, particularly in the way it often tries to take advantage of attempts by Government to relax pension rules.

It is widely accepted that electronic trading will drive significant costs from the Financial Services industry, perhaps more than £1bn according to some estimates.

Two weeks ago I promised to tell readers exactly what I think, as a consumer, of the financial services industry, so here's part one of my - very lengthy - two-part comment on the ‘provider' market before I reveal next week my view of the intermediary...