The advised platform market has experienced its worst quarter for net flows since 2016 with just £4.3bn added in Q4 2022 - down £5.4bn on a year earlier.
Read more ...Lack of wills could hit £5.5trn UK inheritances
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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More than half of people who have some financial responsibility for others (57%) have failed to write a will.
Read more ...Half of FCA staff considering quitting warns union
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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The Unite trade union has claimed that staff anger is reaching tipping point at the Financial Conduct Authority with half of its workers considering leaving.
Read more ...Crypto to face ‘robust regulation’
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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The government says that crypto trading and crypto assets will be "robustly" regulated under new proposals published today.
Read more ...NS&I 1 year fixed rate bonds return
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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NS&I has issued new one-year fixed rate Guaranteed Growth Bonds and Guaranteed Income Bonds today, for the first time since 2019.
Read more ...Consumer Duty is a ‘watershed moment’, says FCA director
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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The Consumer Duty is a “watershed moment” that must be taken extremely seriously by firms offering investment services and financial advice, a senior director at the FCA has said.
Read more ...Nexus IFA restricted over ‘serious concerns’
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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Nexus Independent Financial Advisers and Nexus Investment Managers - based in Fareham, Hants - have been restricted from carrying out regulated activities over client money irregularities totalling more than £2m.
Read more ...Nexus IFA restricted over ‘serious concerns’
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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Nexus Independent Financial Advisers and Nexus Investment Managers - based in Fareham, Hants - have been restricted from carrying out regulated activities over client money irregularities totalling more than £2m.
Read more ...Fairstone buys £450m FUM Surrey Financial Planner
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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Fast-growing national Financial Planning firm Fairstone has acquired Chartered firm Mantle Financial Planning in its first deal of 2023.
Read more ...Due diligence data for IHT planning launched
- Wednesday, 01 February 2023
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Online due diligence fintech DD|hub has launched diligence data for inheritance tax (IHT) planning portfolios to help planners meet FCA expectations ahead of new Consumer Duty rules.
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