First official RDR stats: adviser numbers down 20%, bank advisers fall 44% 27 March 2013 10:00 am | By Natalie Holt The number of IFAs and tied advisers operating on the first day of the RDR was 20 per cent down on December 2011 figures while the number of bank advisers fell 44 per cent.
The first comprehensive FSA figures on post-RDR adviser numbers are based on professional standards data submitted by firms and show the total number of retail investment advisers fell 23 per cent from the 40,566 estimated by the FSA at the end of 2011 to 31,132 at the end of 2012, the first day of the RDR. The total number of advisers after the RDR deadline was also down 13 per cent from the 35,899 advisers the FSA estimated were operating in summer 2012.
Of the post-RDR total, 30,045 were fully qualified retail investment advisers and 965 were part qualified, including those who have until 30 June to become RDR compliant. Wealth Transfer Planning, Part I: I don’t want to talk about it. Whilst the Vikings and the Pharaohs may have believed otherwise, today most people seem to accept the old adage ‘you can’t take it with you when you’re gone’.
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Performance monitoring service Pingdom has done another one of its mammoth social media studies, this one on the demographics of social media sites – every site imaginable, one would think, except for Google+. (Because Google+ is not directly monetized yet, the service does not appear in DoubleClick Ad Planner, the tool Pingdom uses to gather the data.) Above: Age distribution across social networks Image Credit: Pingdom. The Winners and Losers of Social Media in 2012. 2012 was indeed a crazy year in social media.
Barclays tells staff to follow new code of conduct or leave. 17 January 2013 4:37 pm | By Samuel Dale Barclays has told staff to sign up to a new code of conduct or leave the firm in a blunt letter from chief executive Anthony Jenkins.
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Tiffany's Likes, and other people's comments on Tiffany's profile, push her information onto Buhr's newsfeed, offering a frequent reminder that her friend is gone. Buhr says she felt she had to unfriend Tiffany because it was too difficult to be reminded of the loss nearly everyday. Jeff Lutz has a similar story. His beloved grandfather's wife, Laurel Lutz, passed away in 2011. Her side of the family must have continued to operate Laurel's Facebook page because Lutz said he continued to see updates and Likes. "In the first week after Laurel passed, a note went on her Facebook wall thanking her family via various inside jokes and drinking references," he says. Death is a topic people tend to avoid thinking about. Revealed: SJP's instructions to advisers - ifaonline mobile.
Alasdair Pal | IFAonline | 18 December 2012 | 07:51 Tied wealth manager St James’s Place has sent its advisers guidance on how best to describe its restricted service. In an extensive Retail Distribution Review (RDR) briefing note seen by , the firm - the UK's largest adviser with £32.8bn of assets under management - tells advisers to stress its restricted range of funds has been "carefully selected" by SJP, and ensure clients do not switch off trail commission post-RDR.
"You are required to disclose orally the nature of the services you provide," it read. Sales Consulting, Sales Management & Marketing. Google launches UK mortgage comparison service. Google has launched a UK mortgage comparison service after striking a deal with Avelo Trigold to provide whole of market mortgage data.
The comparison service lists products that are available direct from lenders and via brokers. Where products are available only through a broker, users are passed to one of 10 brokers Google has selected, who pay Google for each lead. The brokers include Turnkey Mortgages, Your Mortgage Decisions, Think Loans Mortgages, Which? Mortgage Advisers, Charwin Private Clients, First Union Mortgages, If I Were You, Mortgage Pro, A Mortgage Now and Sensible Home Finance. A Google search for “mortgages” brings up the ‘Compare Mortgages with Google’ option. Lenders who have commercial agreements with Google will have their contact details and website link displayed.
Prediciting the next crash. Stephen Fitzpatrick is the Strategy Director of the Social Business Group at Profero What if an early warning system existed that could raise the alarm on the next financial crisis? What if such a network already existed before the crisis, but we simply didn’t know where to look? It would certainly have been helpful to politicians and regulators in the UK. There were signs for those prepared to look for them.
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