Nicola Watts: DB Pensions and the PI Challenge – are we in trouble?
- Friday, 25 May 2018
- Comment
Towards the end of last year I was invited to sit as part of a panel at a conference - a discussion on defined benefit pensions.
Read more...Watts: Stop failed advisers just walking away
- Wednesday, 28 February 2018
- Comment
I make no apologies for the fact that ‘phoenixing’ seems to be a regular topic in the industry press – a quick search of the internet brought up no end of articles on the subject, going back over a number of years.
Read more...Editor’s Comment: Why the great fee debate will take off in 2018
- Friday, 05 January 2018
- Comment
There has been a growing, and somewhat contentious, debate among Financial Planners and Paraplanners recently about the fairest way to charge clients. Despite years of regulatory intervention in the advisory sector it remains a surprisingly grey area.
Read more...Zurich halves platform fees for £500k+ to target retirees
- Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Articles
Zurich has announced a platform price cut from January, reducing the platform fee by more than half for assets above £500,000 from 0.22% to 0.10%.
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