Advisers face challenging decade
As the end of the decade draws closer, independent advisers face a dual threat: further regulation and lower returns.
While considerable debate surrounds the introduction of the new rules for financial advisers, returns may prove the bigger threat to incomes. How advisers and managers navigate these dual threats will likely determine who the industry’s winners and losers will be.
Low returns are an insidious threat. Investors, and their advisers, have enjoyed a great run. Since the end of the Global Financial...MORE»
AFA concerns on back-burner for nowMonday, August 27th, 6:00AM
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NZ Funds targeting clients' points of painMonday, August 13th, 6:00AM
NZ Funds has launched a new pension transfer service with a difference: its nationwide UK pension transfer team are offering to do the transfer advice and processing free of charge, before passing the client back to their adviser to be advised within the context of their usual ongoing advice relationship. MORE» |
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