The latest update from the Personal Finance Society (PFS) shows fantastic progress towards higher standards of professionalism.
Barclays has been fined a record £7.7m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for investment advice failings and ordered to compensate customers with a further £60m.
The latest price inflation figures show a leap in the rate of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to 3.7% in the year to December 2010.
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford responds to a client query about investing in an EIS using his SIPP.
The influential Ernst & Young Item Club has suggested that the Bank of England keeps interest rates low in order to maintain economic recovery.
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 6,002.07, down 21.81 points or -0.36% on the day and up 17.74 points (+0.30%) over the week.
A Law Commission consultation on the legality of pre-nuptial agreements in England and Wales could have implications for pension sharing orders.
The Government has today confirmed that it will remove the Default Retirement Age (DRA).
A report in the Telegraph today quotes Cazenove’s Robin Griffiths as saying that not owning gold during the current financial turmoil is “a form of insanity”.
New data published by FTfm has shown that investment funds which are managed by banks and insurance companies generally underperform those operated by independent asset managers.
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