Social care reforms have been put back until October 2025, after the next general election. Is the delay leaving people reluctant to make plans for care in later life, and how are advisers navigating this?
The later-life lending market has experienced phenomenal growth in recent times, due in part to greater life expectancy and rising house prices but also to soaring inflation. Once the reserve of specialist advisers, the sector is starting to steer towards the mainstream market and is increasingly on brokers’ radar.
Good morning and welcome to your Morning Briefing for Thursday 8 December 2022. To get this in your inbox every morning click here. Wren Starling acquisition trail National IFA the Wren Sterling Group has bought Morfitt & Turnbull, which boasts around £270m of client assets. Its managing director Gareth Shaw and
I am now far older and wiser but various wear and tear of the body and mind has made preparing for things like this a good deal harder. But if you want to be well rounded in later life financial advice, Solla is the place to be.
Does it matter what advisers are called?
The public need advice more than ever but remain confused over the options. Are advisers’ titles important, and is there a definitive term anyway?
By Justin Cash 5
th May 2021 10:23 am
“Are you the Judean People’s Front?” the server asks. “F k off,” comes the terse response. “We’re the People’s Front of Judea.”
It is an iconic scene many readers will recognise from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The film is more than 40 years old, but the fight over substance and semantics is not dissimilar to the battle in which the advice profession finds itself today.