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Our Industry Commentator with his top news links each week.
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28 May 2017
Has the coronation turned into an election? Polls have tightened and sterling traders are nervous – it could be as much as a 20 point lead falling to five or six per cent for Theresa May and her Conservatives.
21 May 2017
A good news story on the regulatory front! Advisers are doing pretty well when it comes to suitability, less so when it comes to disclosure of charges. But this is still quite a positive story as this Reuters article demonstrates.
14 May 2017
It looks like quite a strange week for news in financial services. It has been a little bit muted with the election campaign in full swing but before we see the manifestos.
07 May 2017
Old Mutual makes a big decision which may have day to day implications for IFAs this week.
01 May 2017
So what are the repercussions of the finance bill being slimmed down to get it through? Well among other things Making Tax Digital, which would have seen small business potentially sending multiple tax returns across the year, looks to have been shelved for now.
24 April 2017
There is, as you may have noticed, an election. The big rise in probate fees is at the very least shelved by the Government because there is not enough Parliamentary time before the election.
17 April 2017
Are platforms facilitating charging structures that don’t meet the spirit of the RDR?
09 April 2017
Aegon is told that is cannot demand money back from a former policyholder who was still paid a terminal bonus despite having transferred out of a with profits fund several years’ previously reports FTAdviser.com.
31 March 2017
Sense prevails over Mifid II with IFAs now not expected to tape calls. Instead they can take a written note at key moments instead.
26 March 2017
SCM Direct’s Gina Miller says that trade bodies are failing over Brexit particularly in not understanding that hard Brexit means no passport.
19 March 2017
There may be a row brewing in the world of auto-enrolment. Master Trust Salvus suggests that Nest which has raised its contribution limit to £40,000 from next month could see investors facing big IHT bills.
12 March 2017
Advisers have, no doubt, spent the weekend digesting last week’s budget and in particular what it means for their better off self-employed clients. The two tax changes on NI and dividends have certainly exercised advisers though we await the details of the NI change in the autumn in time for next year, if the change survives this long.
05 March 2017
It seems that many in financial services look at the defined benefit situation by comparing DB with DC. Jargonfreeebenefit’s boss Steve Bee puts another frame on it, arguing that pensions are deferred pay and the promises should not be unwound. He says he is horrified that the recent green paper suggests that employers in difficulties should be able to cut back benefits.
27 February 2017
This week sees a lot of skirmishes over the FCA asset management review as the deadline for responses closes.
19 February 2017
Falcon Group falls foul of a FOS ruling because it recommended a property fund when the portfolio already included commercial property from the client’s business. Certainly one for advisers to pay attention to.
12 February 2017
The FCA is considering a thematic review into DB pension advice according to New Model Adviser. Advisers would do well to note the language used i.e. that New Model Adviser understands this is a possibility.
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