Here at burningpants we like to spend a little time paying homage to long dead economists, men who through long hours of study, glib turn of phrase or simply blind luck have entered the lexicon of great thinkers.
Right now we are thinking hard about the idea …
In the financial advice industry, new customers are a rarer commodity than advisers would like.
They’re hard to come by and even harder to hang onto, often due to the average client’s inability to decouple investment performance from advice and strategy, making it difficult to determine value when …
An increasing number of people are shunning intermediaries and instead choosing to invest directly.
New research by CoreData Research UK shows product manufacturers need to look beyond distribution through financial advisers for future growth as the UK direct market explodes.
Of the 3.27 million households in Britain actively …
I am your typical Generation Y consumer, reasonably computer literate (don’t ask me to fix your server or anything), time poor and cost conscious.
Like many of my peers, I am stuck in the rental market while I struggle to put as much money aside each payday so …
Social media – namely Twitter – is creating a solid core adviser community in the UK. But for some it appears to be impinging on the daily efficiency of running their businesses.
If the number of tweets and level of industry ‘chatter’ are anything to go by it …
As Britain continues along a path of austerity and cost cutting, new research reveals the UK is still home to more than 250,000 millionaires who collectively represent £1.28 trillion of net wealth.
London-based CoreData Research UK’s latest research on Britain’s wealthier individuals has identified 284,317 individuals/households with more …


