Opinion

The issue of long-term care funding was brought into the spotlight again this week after a report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection criticised the standard of home care services.

Almost every day I see an article and comments from one sector or another stating that the solution to our ills is education for consumers on the need for protection policies.

I will begin with an image that will haunt you: it is 12.30 on a Saturday evening and I find myself dancing to ‘Don't stop me now' by Queen with various colleagues and 250 secured loan brokers.

For many offshore insurers, this is the best of times as offshore single premium sales in the UK are expected to exceed £6bn in 2006.

Independent think-tank The Policy Exchange yesterday launched a series of essays which all predict in 50 years time Thatcher's children will be worse off than their parents are today.

As mortgage lending still increases month-on-month to record levels and property prices continue to defy gravity, do we see any let up or reasons for concern, or are some cracks beginning to appear?

While the chances of fund managers gracing the pages of Hello magazine are thankfully slim, there's no doubt that managers are increasingly being touted as celebrities within our industry.

As I began to write this blog I wondered how many advisers found and read my last blog - the answer to which is 41 ( but it has gone up since - ed ) - so in case you are not one of the 41 that read my last blog, it was about the effective use of e-mail....

On my way to work this morning, I noted the recycled rubbish collection was running late but I spied something financial services related as a result.

I recently saw that BMW has launched the next generation of its extremely successful Mini. To be honest, it looks to me very much like the previous generation and some would argue ‘and why not?' when its first generation model's sales exceeded all expectations....