Week in review – 6th March 2015

This week at Informed Choice, we’ve been winning awards, talking about robo-advisers, and going for a pint.

Blogs

Should you trust your investments to a robo-investor?

This was the question we asked at the start of the week, after the BBC ran a story about the growing popularity of robo-investing for mass market investors.

Dynamic Planner of the Year 2015

On Wednesday, Martin won the Dynamic Planner of the Year 2015 award at the Distribution Technology Annual Conference in London. Well done, Martin!

Three filters for choosing a financial adviser

Prize-winning personal finance journalist Paul Lewis revealed his three filters for choosing a good financial adviser in his latest column for Money Marketing magazine. How does Informed Choice measure up?

Miliband wants to cap pension drawdown charges

There must be an election coming up soon because politicians are getting excited about pensions. Here’s what Labour have in mind.

Podcast

Informed Choice Podcast 14 – Pension fleecing day, FTSE 100 record high & finding your purpose

In the latest episode of the Informed Choice Podcast, Martin looks at whether pension freedom day on 6th April 2015 will really be pension fleecing day for thousands of retirees.

Articles

Money Marketing Out of Context

Nick was featured in the Money Marketing Out of Context column this week, with his slightly flippant response to Labour’s plans to raid pensions tax allowances.

Creating a marketing plan which gets results

Martin wrote for Unbiased about the new Informed Choice marketing plan and the steps financial advisers need to take to get happy clients.