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Cathi Harrison – 3 top compliance tips for paraplanners in 2019

1 February 2019

We asked Cathi Harrison, managing director at Para-Sols and Apricity Compliance, to give us her three top tips for paraplanners from a compliance perspective. Cathi says: 1. Get your head around charges disclosure – as best as you can! Mifid II has caused all manner of bother, with very complex requirements that, for the...
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5 ways to use VCTs in financial planning

1 February 2019

Venture capital trusts (VCTs) can benefit clients in a broad range of different situations, says Paul Latham, managing director, Octopus Investments. Over the course of the 2017-18 tax year, more than 400 advisers wrote their first venture capital trust (VCT) case with Octopus. It was indicative of the wider trend towards making more use...
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TDQ: Test Your Knowledge – Answers

31 January 2019

As part of our Training, Development and Qualifications (TDQ) series, Professional Paraplanner has teamed up with key training and exam support providers to help you to, amongst other things, revise for your qualifications. Below you will find also the cross-references for the 10 questions in this month’s TDQ: Test Your Knowledge, which we posed...
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FCA Retirement Review pinpoints remedies for key consumer issues

31 January 2019

Four years on from the pension freedoms, the FCA has published its Retirement Outcomes Review policy statement, introducing a set of remedies designed to protect consumers and help them make better choices before accessing their pension savings and throughout their retirement. The rules, which will be implemented by 1 November, include changes to ‘wake-up’...
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MetLife’s MultiProtect product now available through iPipeline Solutionbuilder

31 January 2019

MetLife has teamed up with iPipeline to grow the distribution of its accident and hospital cover product MultiProtect, as it seeks to grow the financial protection market in the UK. MultiProtect will be available to selected distributors who use iPipeline’s protection sourcing solution, SolutionBuilder. It offers policyholders payouts of up to £250 a day for...
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February Issue Out Now

30 January 2019

Welcome to your February 2019 edition of Professional Paraplanner Click here to read your issue. For this issue’s paraplanner profile we spoke to Peter Mason, director of PJM Paraplanning and Consultancy Services, about his paraplanning journey, from employed, to self-employed to business owner and his pension transfer specialist work Also, we have a plethora...
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TDQ: Test Your Knowledge – Questions

30 January 2019

For Professional Paraplanner’s TDQ (Training, Development and Qualifications) series, we have teamed up with key support providers, such as Brand Financial Training, to provide our readers with the very best in training, development and exam support. This series aims to provide you with valuable advice and guidance materials to help you achieve your training...
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Paraplanner views split on idea of single rate pensions tax relief

29 January 2019

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently suggested the UK should move to a single rate of pension tax relief or an ISA pension system. In a recent Parameters survey we asked paraplanners for their views on the suggested change. An ISA pension system received little support – just 4% of respondents...
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Featured Videos

We asked five of our presenters what they would most like paraplanners to take away from their sessions at the Technical Insight Seminars 2018. Here’s what Rory Percival had to say about his very popular session.

The Technical Insight Seminars are being hosted around the country at 11 venues. There are still places at some venues so if you’d like to join over 700 of your fellow paraplanners who have registered to attend, Email info@researchinfinance.co.uk for more info.

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In this video, Rebecca Lucas, founder and director of Lime Outsourced Paraplanning, talks about the qualities she feels are needed for anyone looking to set up an outsourced paraplanning business.

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In this video, with Elsa Ordonez Garcia, paraplanner with Mazars, shares her view on how to get the best from the adviser/paraplanner relationship.

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Paraplanner profile December - Rob Kingsbury talked to Kirsty Stone, CISI Paraplanner of the Year 2017, about being a Law graduate, volunteering for Citizens Advice Bureau, working at Pension Wise and becoming senior paraplanner at Dart Capital.

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Professional Paraplanner Technical Insight Seminars continue this autumn starting on 6 September in Edinburgh.
Attendance is free for paraplanners.

If you are undecided on whether to attend one of our Seminars – or you need some ammunition to put forward your case for attending – in the video below see what some of the paraplanners at the London event thought of the day.

We have three great days lined up for you at each of our events - featuring plenary sessions and workshops – and we look forward to seeing you there.

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For our September issue, we filmed our Paraplanner Profile Caroline Stuart talking about why she will be hosting the national Paraplanners Powwow this year.

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Possibly the best para-life-planning role in the world

Great opportunity to be a key part of a fintech enabled team set on transforming the Wealth Management sector.

Check out the role in the jobs section - www.professionalparaplanner.co.uk/jobs

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Standards International, Michelle Hoskin, MD gives an update on the paraplanning standard.

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Alan Gow, Owner, Argonaut Paraplanning, Outsourced Paraplanning Services Provider, gives us an insight into his experience as a delegate at the Technical Insight Seminar, Bristol, 9th November 2016.

Thirty five paraplanners from across the South-West joined us at the Aztec Hotel & Spa for an educational seminar. The delegates heard speakers from The FCA, Technical Connection, Invesco Perpetual, BlackRock iShares, Fidelity, Columbia Threadneedle and Investec Structured Product on a wide range of topics.

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Ashley Maloney, Paraplanner at Vestra Wealth LLP, gives us an insight into her experience as a delegate at the Technical Insight Seminar, London, 8th June 2016.

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