Best Practice

Best Practice | 19 May 16

The Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane has said that financial advisers have “no clue” about pensions, while admitting that he himself cannot make the “remotest sense” of them.

Best Practice | 18 May 16

A new UK quality mark aimed at helping consumers choose self-invested personal pension (Sipp) products without the help of an adviser will be launched this summer.

Best Practice | 17 May 16

The finalists of the inaugural International Adviser Product & Service Awards 2016 gathered at London’s Waldorf Hilton Hotel on 12 May to hear the winners announced by Last Word’s co-founder and group editorial director Dylan Emery.

Best Practice | 11 May 16

A group of exchange traded product providers has banded together to launch the ETF Forum, an initiative designed to improve advisers’ understanding of exchange-traded funds.

Asia | 29 Apr 16

The Australian government has revised its plans to ensure financial advisers hold a university degree and has decided to delay the introduction of new rules aimed at raising the education, training and ethical standards of financial advisers.