What’s happening
Nucleus first platform to sign up to Options initiative
Nucleus, the IFA-owned and controlled wrap proposition, has become the first wrap platform to join Options, the insurance industry’s initiative…
On your marks, get set, clench – the Friday links buttock workout
Right then, for the uninitiated a bit of preamble on what this whole Friday links malarkey is all about. Pared…
The unsociable FSA's Dr Pepper moment
The Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) latest guidance (this link downloads a PDF of the guidance, by the way) on the…
NS&I accused of leaving savers high and dry
This week’s midweek money sections focused on the withdrawal of National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) index-linked and fixed-rate tax-free saving…
Hurray, the compulsory annuity has been retired…
The annuity is dead (ok, not exactly dead but at least no longer compulsory) and as our stalwart pensions guru…
Emerging markets, US equities and commodities: IFAs’ tips for the summer
Burley Financial Services joins Nucleus
Bring me sunshine (and the Friday Links blog)…
If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, we’d like to introduce you to Messrs Friday and Links – just as…
Pinocchio meets the regulators… and it’s not looking pretty
‘Liar loans’ received a decent airing in the mid week money sections this week with warnings coming thick and fast.…
Brand Ucits: losing its lustre?
When is a Ucits fund no longer a Ucits fund? That is the question currently facing the European fund industry,…
By Chris Duncan
