Business

• Regulatory consultations are interesting in a number of ways

  

  Part of my thought process when considering consultations is, what questions should the regulator have asked, and why didn’t they? says Gareth James, head of technical resources at AJ Bell

• MiFID II and the challenges of providing aggregated costs and charges statements

  

  Steve Bailey of ATEB Consulting looks at the rules around aggregated costs and charges arising from MiFID II.

• Where I see the challenges and opportunities in 2019

  

  Dynamic Planner CEO Ben Goss sets out below what he believes the next 12 months has in store for the advice industry

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• Taking control of workflow

  

  How can you use your back-office software to stop being a task slave and instead become a task master? Sara Rowe, senior solutions consultant, IRESS has some suggestions

• How independent are you?

  

  Steve Bailey, director ATEB Consulting, looks at how the definition of independence has changed, the errors still being made by firms in their disclosure documents, and what action firms can … Continued

• 6 tips for cutting your firm’s energy bills

  

  Business energy consumption and costs could be considerably reduced with the right corrective action, says Nicky Bannister, head of Flogas Energy

• Unravelling FCA Policy Statement PS18/20 – Pensions Transfers

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at the key points in the FCA’s ‘Improving the quality of pension transfer advice’ paper

• How DFM fears could be costing adviser firms

  

  Concerns adviser firms have about using a DFM – costs, performance and having clients stolen – are misplaced fears which could be costing them – and their clients – more than they know

• Pension Dashboard could help cut advice costs and prevent pension scamming

  

  Pensions Dashboard will help make pension advice more cost effective and so open up advice to more people. It could also help put an end to pension scams, says Kay Ingram, director of Public policy at LEBC Group

• Dealing with new FCA rules on pension transfers, conversions and opt-outs

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at what is expected in respect of the FCA’s latest rules on pensions transfers effective this month.

• Using your CRM to better communicate with clients

  

  Sara Rowe, senior solutions consultant, IRESS looks at how to use a CRM system to make client communications more effective, particularly when addressing the majority of your client base 

• CBI/PwC survey shows financial services optimism falling

  

  Optimism in the financial services sector took a turn for the worse in the three months to September, new data from the CBI and PwC has shown.

• When pension transfer triage becomes regulated advice

  

  ATEB Consulting MD Steve Bailey looks at the practice of transfer triage and where it could cross into regulated advice from the FCA’s perspective