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Raid on rival boosts new AIA advice arm
Singapore’s newly minted AIA Financial Advisers is on a recruitment spree and has reportedly made an offer of around S$100m (£56.5m, $74.5m, €62m) to lure across more than 300 people from Great Eastern’s Advisors Alliance Group.
Investment | news 11 Sep 17
Should you sell in summer?
Negative updates and rocky company accounting during quiet summer months should not be a sole signal to sell a stock, says SVM Asset Management’s Margaret Lawson.
Brexit to hit three times more British than EU pensioners
There are three times as many Brits over the age of 65 living in other European Union countries than vice versa but they are showing little inclination to rush home ahead of Brexit, figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest.
Investment | news 8 Sep 17
Are smart beta funds worth it?
Morningstar’s Alex Bryan casts doubt on the cost-effectiveness and usefulness of smart beta funds.
IFA jailed for forging signatures
A former financial adviser who was found guilty of forging clients’ signatures to invest their cash into a high-risk fund that later went bankrupt has been sentenced to seven years in prison.