The Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association (PIMFA) have written to the FCA proposing a new set of rules to allow advisers to offer a simplified financial advice proposal. The issue of simplified financial advice has been around for some time now. So far the advice market has attempted to offer this through an […]
The effect of the governments freeze on tax rate bands is becoming clearer according to the latest figures from HMRC. And the effect is massive tax increases for millions. Ask your Financial Adviser about tax hikes and they will explain. The number of higher rate taxpayers has increased by 1.7 million people to over 5.5 […]
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I don’t know about you but I’m not a big Tik Tok user, but I do think I know what it is! Unsurprisingly, because of its popularity with young people, it has also become overrun by so called “influencers”. These are people with large numbers of followers who promote products and services to their followers […]
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released figures to show that it is working hard with the financial service industry to crack down on fraud. To help customers find a Financial Adviser, the FCA scans over 100,00 websites every single day, to check for fraud and scams. That’s a lot. It’s able to do this […]
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According to Pension Minister Guy Oppenheimer the answer is yes. Doomed Final Salary lump sum pensions schemes still enjoyed by millions of public sector workers are unsustainable and unlikely to be around in 10 to 15 years’ time according to the government. The latest figures (FT Adviser 15/6/22) showed that these public sector pension costs […]
Funeral Plan providers are in the last stages of approval by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). From the 29th July the FCA will formally take over regulation of the whole industry, which has been planned for well over 12 months. Part of a Probate Service, Funeral Planning has been on the FCA’s hitlist for some […]
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