The latest buzz phrase in UK financial services is ‘factory gate pricing’ – meaning a price reflecting the cost of production and prior to distribution and marketing costs being added.
So a non-marketed pension product offered via a nil commission structure can be said to have factory gate …
Mimicking the almost instantaneous ability of credit card vendours to assess consumer eligibility, it seems home loan providers are getting in on the act.
However evidence indicates outright speed isn’t the leading driver influencing decision making for consumers when it comes to choosing which provider to go with …
Financial services companies spend an obscene amount of money every year on branding yet when it comes to financial advice the only brand most consumers are aware of is that of their adviser.
Consumers it would appear are almost blind to the various dealer group and funds management …
Gambling they say is a mugs game, yet it seems this is what a company with the self proclaimed name of ‘Mortgage Watchdog’ is encouraging consumers to do.
The group sells a software program that alleges an almost certain probability of detecting errors in bank mortgage statements, resulting …
A key indicator of economic development in industrialised countries used to be the growth in household fixed line telephones – in China it is the mobile phone and numbers of investors.
The stock market bounce in February is but a distant memory with brokers and managed fund operators …
We’ve got a guy called John Foxe to blame for what is now considered to be one of the most fundamental traits of business – branding.
In 1570, Foxe coined the phrase “new bodies, new minds and all thinges new, brande newe”[sic], which has since evolved into the …
