Browsing all articles from November, 2006


Major changes to the British financial advice market will fuel an exodus of advisers out of the industry with 42.5% potentially leaving the industry before 2015, new research reveals.

This is in light of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) last week announcing significant changes to how payments to …

The year so far would suggest the global economic turmoil of 2009 has now passed – with data out of America and Europe (excluding Greece) indicating stabilisation has been achieved and that consumer sentiment isn’t far behind.

While the great engines of the American and major European economies …

The next UK general election, now confirmed for May 6th, will be important for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it could be a watershed. After the Conservatives won power in 1979, the UK had 18 years of Tory government, followed by 13 years of Labour.

So power has …

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has taken on the task of defending (while mocking at the same time) UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, against an onslaught of slick and cutting opposition-funded Saachi & Saachi advertising.

The Guardian, a traditional Labour leaning broadsheet, is using Brown’s unemotional public persona by portraying …

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