Business

• Not just about ‘keeping the lights on’

  

  Operating under lockdown conditions during the current crisis has meant going beyond maintaining systems and services, says Anthony Rafferty, Managing Director of Fintech Origo

• Why and how power of attorney should be put in place for clients

  

  Grant Blakey, technical consultant at AJ Bell, considers the importance of your client’s having a power of attorney in place, the benefits of doing so and potential drawbacks if not.

• GDPR for advice firms 2020

  

  Steve Bailey, director of ATEB Consulting, reviews GDPR two years on from its implementation in the UK and provides some practical tips.

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• Why client calmness is an acid test of good advice

  

  Colin Dyer, head of Proposition and Private Client Management at 1825, talks to the firm’s approach to client relationships and surprise responses in the current crisis Sat at our desks at … Continued

• Dealing with vulnerable clients during the Covid-19 pandemic

  

  How the Regulator might expect firms to be dealing with vulnerable clients at this time

• Where we are and what lies ahead?

  

  Amine Chaieb, partner at Spearvest, provides looks at current markets and what scenario we might be looking at in the months ahead

• 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

• 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.