If you go down to your bank today…
Not known for their shining reputation for providing good investment advice, the banks have taken another beating today after Bank of Scotland was fined £3.5m by the FSA.
An Informed Day
May 24, 2011
The team has spent today sharing regular updates on Twitter, to offer an insight into a typical day in the life of an award-winning firm of Chartered Financial Planners.
Your Better Life Index
May 24, 2011
The OECD has launched a new interactive index which will enable people to measure and compare their lives in a way which goes beyond traditional GDP measures of economic wealth.
Claims management firms are surplus to requirements
May 24, 2011
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford has a run-in with a claims management firm and explains why they are surplus to requirements when it comes to PPI misselling claims.
CIVETS, BRICs and MINTs
May 23, 2011
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford looks at CIVETS; a group of favoured emerging market economies which form the basis for a new fund launch from HSBC.
Market numbers: Friday 20th May 2011
May 22, 2011
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,948.49, down 7.50 points or -0.13% on the day and up 22.62 points (+0.38%) over the week.
A dangerous pension scheme
May 20, 2011
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford takes a closer look at a dangerous unregulated scheme which offers to give you access to 50% of your pension fund before age 55.
IFA Lives: 14 Questions for Nick Bamford
May 20, 2011
Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford was invited to participate in an online interview this morning, as part of the IFA Lives series from IFA social networking website IFA Life.
Assessing investment suitability
May 20, 2011
Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford writes about the FSA conference in London yesterday around assessing the suitability of investment risk.
Webcast: 10 Ways to Make Your Money Work Harder
May 19, 2011
Our latest Financial Planning webcast was broadcast live this morning and a recording is now available here – 10 Ways to Make Your Money Work Harder and Why You Need to Act Now.
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