FinancialAdviser ISSUE 14 August 2008 >> Features

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Scot Life guides on drawdown

Scottish Life launch income drawdown leaflets for advisers.

Features

Lincoln looks to Focus

Intermediary extranet service available aimed at retirement planning market.

Business sees no early end to crunch climate

Statistics reveal firms will feel the pinch of the credit crunch even in five years' time.

RDR conference

FSA to hold RDR conference in October.

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FSF TCF forum

The issue of TCF will be discussed at FSF forum in September.

Small firms ignoring gov't cash assistance, says Venture

Small Firms Loan Guarantee is still an untapped funding resource for business, say Venture Finance

Threesixty lends an IHT hand

Advisers are offered new, updated version of Threesixty's IHT guide.

NLA opens think tank

Advisers can voice their opinions on the sale and leaseback market.

You have the power, use it

LTC and equity release advice

Get the facts straight, Hazell

Letter to the Editor

It is hard, but you can be a success

LTC

When does just enough become way too much?

Letter to the Editor

The need to overturn perception deceptions

Letter to the Editor; Letter of the week

Bubbly is bubbling along nicely

Bubbly news

It's all a bit of a blur

You know consolidation in the industry is taking its toll when the acquisitions director starts losing count of his company's purchases.

It never rains but it pours

Here comes the rain

Learning how to find the weakest link in the chain

In TCF terms, the FSA wants firms to monitor the whole distribution chain

Just grin and bear it

There is no use complaining and worrying about the bull market turning in to a bear - all advisers can do know is find ways to use it to their benefit

Step back in time

Stagflation is back on the agenda for the first time since the 1970s and central banks have their work cut out

It is hare today ...

Investors would do well to examine the approach used by top quality income managers and remember to invest for the long-term

A week of working at the coal face

Peter Chadborn, principal for Essex-based CBK, spends his week working on ways to improve a referral relationship with a local solicitor as well as working how best the company can have a web presence. However, he still finds time for a game of squash and a trip to the gym as well as taking his son to football practice

Thinking about tomorrow today

According to the Law Commission the majority of advisers are in favour of a fundamental review of the insurance contract. So now is the time for IFAs to start thinking about how any changes in this area will affect their business

Mystery Shopper: Ipswich

The mystery shopper visits Ipswich this week, to find out about annuities.

"We had to take on Thatcher. We were against the wall: it was fight or die"

Maike Currie talks to Stewart Ritchie, who retires from Scottish Equitable this year, about a lifetime of working with annuities and the improvements that he feels he has helped bring about, as well as how pensions work in other circumstances around the world

A show of force

Both the weather and the regulatory climate have been inclement in the last few weeks.

Behave yourself

Advisers would do well to pay heed to the latest theories relating to why investors behave the way they do

Conspiracy? What conspiracy?

Or why people should stop learn to stop worring and love sovereign wealth funds


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