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Simplified advice? Not so simple.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published guidance consultation on its plans for a simplified advice regime. Simplified advice is […]
Julia Docker
Sep 15, 20112 min read


Welcome to our brand new website!
We are very excited to have launched our brand new website this morning.
Julia Docker
Sep 14, 20111 min read


Rip-off financial advisers & ongoing service
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford explains why consumers of financial services should ensure they are getting good value for money.
Julia Docker
Sep 12, 20112 min read


Restructuring the banks
The Independent Commission on Banking has recommended that UK banks should ring fence their retail banking operations to protect customers and the taxpayer from riskier investment banking divisions.
Julia Docker
Sep 12, 20112 min read


Transparency or blissful ignorance?
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford questions whether investors think transparency is a good thing or would they prefer not to know?
Julia Docker
Sep 9, 20112 min read


Informed Choice needs you!
As our business continues to grow, we would like to recruit an additional self-employed Financial Planner to join the Informed Choice team in 2011.
Julia Docker
Sep 7, 20112 min read


Model portfolios, transparency & independence
A new paper from the Personal Finance Society is warning about some issues arising from the use of model portfolios, distributor-influenced funds and outsourced discretionary fund management.
Julia Docker
Sep 6, 20112 min read


Who is to blame for the economic slump?
With the UK economic recovery weaker than expected, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show it is the banks who are largely to blame.
Julia Docker
Aug 30, 20112 min read


Investing company pension contributions
Nick Bamford explains how an IFA can work with employees to help them select the most suitable funds within their pension schemes.
Julia Docker
Aug 17, 20112 min read


Investment platforms & duty of care
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was quoted in Investment Adviser magazine recently, in an article looking at the duty of care exercised by investment platforms.
Julia Docker
Aug 15, 20111 min read


Why widows fire Financial Planners
A contact on Twitter highlighted an article in a US publication explaining why wives don’t tend to fire Financial Planners, but widows do.
Julia Docker
Aug 12, 20112 min read


The 65th Cranleigh Show
The 65th Cranleigh Show took place at the Showground on Sunday and we were pleased to sponsor the event for the first time.
Julia Docker
Aug 10, 20111 min read


The Cranleigh Show 2011
Informed Choice is a proud sponsor of the 65th Cranleigh Show which takes place in Cranleigh on Sunday 7th August 2011.
Julia Docker
Jul 29, 20111 min read


News release: Another record year for Informed Choice
Award-winning firm of Chartered Financial Planners Informed Choice is pleased to report another record year for the business.
Julia Docker
Jul 29, 20113 min read


Our new review report
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford shares news about our new-look review reports, which clients will start to receive from the start of August.
Julia Docker
Jul 28, 20112 min read


Boring is good
Writing in Money Marketing this week, Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford explains why a boring approach to investment advice is often best.
Julia Docker
Jul 28, 20112 min read


The Retail Distribution Review is going ahead
Today sees the publication of a report from the House of Commons Treasury Committee, making recommendations following their review of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
Julia Docker
Jul 16, 20112 min read


Bank salesman turned MP makes lazy comment
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Nick Bamford responds from comments made by Labour MP Chris Evans about how IFAs act and behave.
Julia Docker
Jul 15, 20112 min read


Informed Choice is 17 today!
Today is the 17th birthday for Informed Choice, following our formation on 11th July 1994.
Julia Docker
Jul 11, 20112 min read


Restoring consumer trust in financial services
Next year should see the replacement of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) with a new regulatory body called the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Julia Docker
Jun 29, 20112 min read
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