Editor’s Comment: The advice experiment
- Friday, 15 December 2023
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Perhaps not surprisingly the Association of British Insurers has concluded, after carrying out an advice experiment, that personalised guidance really can work.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: Blurred lines
- Friday, 08 December 2023
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Boundaries are essential for all sorts of good reasons. They make things clear to everyone involved what’s the right side of the line and what’s not. Blurred lines are best avoided.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: The true cost of bad advice
- Friday, 01 December 2023
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The true cost of bad advice, and more importantly what it’s going to cost, moved into the spotlight this week with the FCA’s headline-making proposals to compel most financial advice firms, some 5,000, to set aside reserves for the cost of bad advice.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: The killer scams
- Friday, 24 November 2023
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[Content warning - this article contains references to suicide and self harm. Please see footnote]
Most weeks, to be fair nearly every week, we run stories on Financial Planning Today about scammers or financial crooks who have cheated clients out of all or part of their savings.
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