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Good morning and welcome to your Morning Briefing for Monday 24 May, 2021. To get this in your inbox every morning click here. UK must seize the moment One recurrent motto expressed during Covid-19 is to not let a crisis go to waste. Many have already started to make bold statements about how the country can build
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FSCS levy
Every year advisers brace themselves for how much they will have to contribute to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy. In January, the overall levy for 2021/22 was forecasted to be an eye-watering £1.04bn.
This represented a rise of almost 50% on the previous year. Today that figure has been revised down to £833m.
It might be £206m lower than the forecast at the beginning of the year, but it’s still £133m higher than the 2020/21 levy.
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Leader – Past their best: Should fund buy lists still be taken seriously?
If best-buy lists can reduce the advice gap, they should not be scoffed at but there is much room for improvement
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Sometimes having too much choice can be overwhelming. Imagine being a first-time investor without any idea of where to begin. You are confronted with more than 4,000 funds, accompanied by factsheets full of jargon and investment spiel with which even a well-versed investor might struggle.
In theory, the idea of a fund buy list is a good thing: to help investors narrow down the choices into what have been, for example, the best 50 funds over the past month, quarter or year.
Charlotte Richards wonders if fund buy lists are still important
MM Meets
Caroline Rainbird – The Financial Services Compensation Scheme chief executive talks to Michael Klimes about the lifeboat fund’s busiest period since the financial crisis
Features
Social media platforms make investment accessible but also risky, says Charlotte Richards
Amanda Newman Smith looks at the financial services cases that have made it to an employment tribunal
What’s the right way to run an advice firm remotely? Amanda Newman Smith investigates
Special report