Opinion: How Ethical & Responsible Investments are helping the war against the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

By |2020-04-15T12:01:51+00:00April 10th, 2020|ESG, Ethical investing, IFS Wealth & Pensions, Investments, Pensions, Ricky Chan|

It’s no understatement to say that the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic is having a detrimental (sometimes devastating) impact on every [...]

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Professional Adviser – FCA asks advice firms to remove unused pension transfer permissions

By |2020-02-05T10:50:05+00:00September 4th, 2019|DB Pension Transfer, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions, Professional Adviser, Ricky Chan|

Professional Adviser (04/09/2019) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to advice firms asking them to consider removing their [...]

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FT Adviser – Gender pensions gap impacted by self-employment

By |2020-02-04T13:25:15+00:00September 3rd, 2019|FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions, Ricky Chan|

FT Adviser (03/09/2019) - The influx of women entering self-employment is making it difficult to close the gender pensions gap, [...]

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FT Adviser – Warning ombudsman services open to manipulation

By |2020-02-05T14:04:59+00:00August 27th, 2019|Alan Chan, Financial Ombudsman Service, FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (27/08/2019) - Consumers could manipulate the outcome and awards they receive from the ombudsman by choosing to bring [...]

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FT Adviser – Provider caves to client pressure on pension transparency

By |2020-02-05T14:05:40+00:00August 22nd, 2019|Alan Chan, FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (22/08/2019) - Scottish Widows has backtracked on removing a function that allows clients to see what underlying funds [...]

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FT Adviser – Advisers face burden under new Sipp rules

By |2020-02-04T21:06:44+00:00August 16th, 2019|Alan Chan, DB Pension Transfer, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (16/08/2019) - Proposals from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will put extra burden on advisers as they will [...]

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FT Adviser – Experts blame new rules for pension transfer decline

By |2020-02-05T14:00:55+00:00August 15th, 2019|Alan Chan, DB Pension Transfer, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (15/08/2019) - Defined benefit transfers have seen the lowest take up rate in almost two years, which experts [...]

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FT Adviser – Aegon to add portfolio feature to platform

By |2020-02-05T13:47:39+00:00August 8th, 2019|Alan Chan, FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (08/08/2019) - Aegon is developing a function on its platform to allow financial advisers to put clients into [...]

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FT Adviser – Advisers drop clients over drawdown concerns

By |2020-02-04T21:03:57+00:00July 26th, 2019|Alan Chan, Financial Ombudsman Service, FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (26/07/2019) - Some advisers have dropped clients because they refused to stay within their agreed budget in drawdown, [...]

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FT Adviser – What to expect from the new chancellor

By |2020-02-04T21:00:41+00:00July 25th, 2019|Alan Chan, FTAdviser, IFS Wealth & Pensions, IFSWP Media, Pensions|

FT Adviser (25/07/2019) - The UK could see a rise in spending, a slashing of tax rates and a shake [...]

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