Insights
We offer a range of thought-leadership content, news and updates to support your day-to-day activity.
Our continuing focus on you and your clients
30 March 2020
This is an unprecedented and testing time for you and your clients. We appreciate this is a critical time for communicating with your clients and reassuring them that the advice you have given them is sound.
Life and protection advice: how valuable are additional support services?
25 March 2020
When it comes to the financial planning process, the value of extending the service to include life and protection policies can sometimes be overlooked by advisers. Ben Heffer looks at the range of additional support services available and reviews adviser attitudes to their value.
What advisers should have learned about MiFID II so far
10 March 2020
As 2020 has begun we are all preparing for Boris’s Brexit Express to leave the station and take the UK on a journey into the unknown.
Record low-interest rates for Equity Release loans
25 February 2020
Equity Release (ER) loans, that are secured against a property and paid off from the sale of that property when the borrower dies, are being offered at record low-interest rates.
Key aspects of the retirement landscape
11 February 2020
It is now five years since the announcement of pension freedoms, and four years since they were passed into legislation. In the grand scheme of things, it is still very new, but that has not stopped retirement outcomes being the subject of regulatory scrutiny.