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Many financial advisers now have powerful parents. But a report due out this week could radically shake up their cosy payment methods
Many financial advisers now have powerful parents. But a report due out this week could radically shake up their cosy payment methods Can you really have your cake and eat it too? A growing number of independent financial advisers think so. They see no conflict of interest in delivering independent advice while being owned by an insurer or pensions company whose products they sell.See the full content of this document
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Is Your Ifa Independent?
Friends Provident last month spent more than 92 million buying two national independent financial adviser businesses, Sesame and Pantheon. In the same week, Standard Life took a quarter-share in IFA firm, Threesixty.
Both are examples of a growing trend of insurance, pension and fund management companies buying shares in t...See the full content of this document
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