This article is featured as part of our week-long series looking at awareness and practical advice to support the Mental Health of those working across the financial services sector. Julie Simpson, Compliance and HR Manager at YFM Equity Partners (YFM), explains how...
Les Cameron, retirement expert at M&G Wealth, shares his views on how he sees UK inflation affecting retirees. Les Cameron (pictured), retirement expert at M&G Wealth, says: “CPI inflation has hit a 30-year high at 5.4%. For those saving for retirement their...
By Debbie Lumsden, private client director at VG As we begin 2022 with Covid-19 continuing to cause widespread disruption and economic uncertainty, it is hard to know what this year will hold. However, there is one action advisers should be considering as a priority...
It was only a matter of weeks ago, in late November 2021 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated the latest Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern following its discovery in Southern Africa. Now well known by the name Omicron, in a few short weeks...
It must have been said a thousand times now - the pandemic and subsequent lockdown has inspired advisers and planners to change the way...
On Friday 5 June, in the face of growing Coronavirus cases and a worsening domestic (and global) economy, all three major US indexes made...
The initial shock of the Pandemic is over but giving way to the second wave. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is urgently directing his gaze to...
IFA firms tend to use a Managed Portfolio Service as part of their CIP. Firms need to consider what makes the CIP likely to be suitable...
Individual savings accounts (ISAs) were introduced on 6 April 1999, replacing the earlier Personal Equity Plans (PEPs) and Tax-Exempt...
M&G Positive Impact fund – embracing the Sustainable Development Goals framework
Editor of Hub News, Cherry Reynard, interviews Fund Manager John William Olsen on the launch of M&G’s new Positive Impact Fund. This interview first appeared in Hub News Issue 40
Ray Boulger is one of the most respected commentators on the mortgage market in the UK. IFA Magazine had the chance to discuss what HSBC's...
What happens when markets move from utility trading to speculation mode? The rules change: Do you know what those rules are? If you are...
Normal life, so say, returns when the nation's kids go to school, and our young adults flood off to Universities in unprecedented numbers....
Kerrranggg! What was that? No, not the opening chord of a heavy metal anthem, but the sound of exalted reputations hitting the concrete. I...
In brief: For index exchange-traded funds (ETFs), synthetic replication has recently gained equal footing with physical replication and,...
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