And trending previously too! During the past year or so, and in tandem with ATEB becoming part of
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You’d have thought that poor advice was becoming a rarity by now wouldn’t you? But no, it still seems to
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If you ask most advice firms which part of the advice process consumes the most time, most will reply: “Suitability
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Client objectives are the starting point for virtually all advice scenarios, but how often do the objectives recorded on file
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One of the FCA’s recent publications, Regulation Round Up, contained several interesting articles. Of course, Consumer Duty occupied plenty of
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Most firms will have at least vague recollections of the FSA’s thematic review of pension switching and the report it
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In any advice scenario, it is good practice to ensure that the client is clear about what service is to
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FT Adviser published an article on 21 September under the heading ‘How to advise on DB transfers’. We would like
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The rules that came into effect in October 2020 arrived under a headline objective of ‘banning contingent charging’. Inevitably, the
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This fourth in a series of articles on FG 21/3 takes a closer look at the guidance around pre-advice information
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