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• Ensuring client understanding in pensions transfer advice

  

  How can you ensure a client understands the advice and the recommendations being made in a pension transfer case? ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at what COBS says, and where advice firms make mistakes

• 5 ways your productivity can be improved

  

  Shyamal Parikh, founder of SmartTask, an online work management tool, suggests five ways task management can contribute to your productivity

• Feedback on CP 19/25 from 1825

  

  Transferring from a DB scheme is a life critical decision and requires high quality, skilled and impartial advice. Colin Dyer, National Advice Manager at 1825, looks at some of the key issues for financial advice firms

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• Is it time to rework the refund rules?

  

  GIven the massive issues that are being caused by the annual allowance, if the limit stays the same then HMRC needs to rework the refund rules, suggests AJ Bell’s Gareth James

• Cyber resilience within financial advice firms

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at ways financial advice firms can guard their businesses against cybercrime

• Fair treatment of vulnerable clients –guidance and approach

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey considers the FCA’s consultation on vulnerable clients, identifying who is a vulnerable client and how aspects such as Principles for Businessesand the TCF outcomes are relevant.

• Paraplanner and compliance training courses opened by Art of Finance for northern cohorts

  

  The Art of Finance has opened registration for the January cohort of the Paraplanner and Compliance courses which will take place in Darlington.

• Pensions Dashboards – a positive disrupter

  

  Michael Roe, development director, Origo, sees the pensions dashboards as a catalyst for positive change in the industry

• Spectre of AI and the threat to wealth managers

  

  What threat does AI pose to family offices and wealth managers in what portends to be a rapidly changing world? Farnoush Farsiar founder of Plato Capital

• Inter-generational wealth management requires digital connectivity

  

  Niral Parekh, managing principal at Capco, says digital connectivity is what’s needed for intergenerational wealth management as envisaged by the FCA

• Do your ongoing reviews deliver value for money?

  

  With value for money a key focus of the FCA’s yet to be completed reviews of RDR and FAMR, Steve Bailey, director of compliance firm ATEB Consulting, considers best practice for advice firms

• Advisers increase use of social media for marketing

  

  Social media has become an increasingly popular marketing tool for advisers

• Preparing an adviser business for sale

  

  Stuart Dyer, chairman, Soprano, outlines a sensible approach for business owners looking to exit their business smoothly