Vast swathes of consumers in the UK prefer an adviser to receive a commission payment over having to personally pay an adviser fee – this is where RDR will fall down.
There has been a great deal of holier than thou gesticulating among advisers in Britain over the …
Australians have literally been left hanging after the weekend’s federal election delivered Australia’s first hung parliament since 1940.
The outlook for the financial services industry is now more uncertain than ever. Negotiations with the powerbrokers that hold the nation’s fate in their hands are in the early stages, …
Can someone please tell the Labor party to quit its bickering?
It seems that since the beginning of the election campaign, Labor has slowly self destructed in front of the nation.
From the moment the faceless NSW powerbrokers instructed the first mate to plunge the knife into the …
Last week China overtook Japan as the second biggest economy in the world, but the US is still the dominant global power despite its woes of late.
Data released last week revealed China’s GDP for the second quarter was US$1.335 trillion, compared to Japan’s US$1.286 trillion.
China’s leapfrog …
It is early days, but London’s new public bike hire scheme appears to be on the way to being a great success, or a jolly good wheeze, as mayor Boris Johnson might put it.
London now has around 5,000 ‘Boris bikes’, as they have been nicknamed, at over …
There is an unspoken war going on in the world of financial services. On one side is the Government and broadly speaking the mainstream press, who are convinced that anyone in the business of financial planning is by their nature dishonest. On the other side are the financial …
