Financial Advice

  • BusinessAOL

    New review to give consumers better financial advice

    A consultation into how financial advice could be made to work better for consumers will be launched on Monday. The probe will look at how "advice gaps" in the market can be bridged, as well as what role new "robo advice"

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  • BusinessAOL

    How advisers are preventing pension transfers

    If you believe the news, you probably think that people are transferring out of pensions left right and centre to get their hands on their pension cash, but the truth is a very different story. Under the new pension freedom rules individuals can

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  • BusinessAOL

    Denied pension freedom by small print in your pension

    Thousands of savers could be denied the chance to take advantage of new pension freedoms by cashing in their pensions. The savers in question have something buried in the small print of their pension known as a guaranteed annuity rate. A new

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  • BusinessAOL

    Pension guidance versus advice: what's the difference?

    What is the difference between guidance and advice and who provides what? You may well be asking these questions in the run up to the pension changes in April and it wouldn't be a surprise if you're finding the answers confusing. When

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  • BusinessAOL

    Will GPs start offering financial advice?

    The head of the public health watchdog has said that the stress of money worries and debts are damaging patient health - so GP surgeries ought to provide access to financial advice. So what is he suggesting, and will it

  • BusinessAOL

    First-time investor? Tips for success

    Pic: Getty For the average Briton, investing in the stock market almost certainly seems like something best left to the professionals. Yet you don't have to be an economics expert or a City trader to buy and sell shares. Here are a few tips

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  • EntertainmentAOL

    Pension changes need to benefit all, not just the rich

    The simplification of pensions in 2006 was supposed to be a new dawn for a complex area of legislation but alas it wasn't to be, in fact it created quite the opposite effect adding pages of new rules and ever more mind-numbing dos and

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