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Would you act the car finance salesman – and advise at SJP?
Choose a discretionary charging structure that harmed the client’s finances to pay my adviser more money – no thank you! I’ll wait till the end of the month to transact, I’m sure I would, but I’m not sure I’d invest … Continue reading
SJP’s charges “pleasingly boring” – Holly Mackay
I had to duck out of the CISI conference last week to talk to SJP big-wigs about their new way of presenting the charges they make. Gone are the early withdrawal charges ( a hangover from another era) split … Continue reading
SJP’s charges “pleasingly boring” – Holly Mackay
I had to duck out of the CISI conference this morning to talk to SJP big-wigs about their new way of presenting the charges they make. Gone are the early withdrawal charges ( a hangover from another era) split out … Continue reading
It’s time to stop sneering at St. James’s Place
St. James’s Place released their half yearly results yesterday and the market responded by marking up their shares 5%. The results told us that SJP had added nearly £10bn to funds under management and that operating profit had shot up. … Continue reading
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Tagged AJ BEll, Hargreaves Lansdown, Pensions, Rob Gardner, SIPP, SJP, St James Place
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5 good reasons we have SJP
As readers of the Times know, James Coney has been exposing St James’s Place as a high pressure sales outfit that rewards its “advisers” with diamond cufflinks, overseas conventions and a lot of money for bringing client’s money under SJP … Continue reading
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Tagged Commission, Fees, pensions, SJP, St James Place, wealth tax
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How contingent fees underpin SJP’s shareholder value.
The last two days have not been kind to St James Place, on Tuesday it was presented with the FCA’s CP19/25 and PS19/21 and yesterday it had to face the wrath of the market which marked its shares down 5% … Continue reading
The problem with platforms (is that everyone loves them).
Platforms are a relatively new but significant and growing distribution channel. The platform service provider market has doubled since 2013 from £250bn to £500bnassets under administration (AUA). This growth in AUA has been driven by rising markets and increasing levels … Continue reading
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Tagged Boring Money, Drawdown, FCA, Hargreaves Lansdown, LaingCat, pensions, platforms, SIPP, St James Place, Vanguard
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“Ease of use” or “value for money”?
Paul Lewis, above all other financial journalists is the master of the 140 character tweet. Here is one of his very best, embedded in a conversation with Louise Cooper. The genius is in the “compete mainly on rhetoric and ease … Continue reading
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Tagged charges, costs, Money, pension, SJP, St James Place, value, Value for Money
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Why Martin Bamford is right to stay an independent financial adviser
SJP – we have been here before Martin Bamford has produced an excellent piece explaining why everyone he knows “loves to hate St James’ Place” . It turns out that quite a few people Martin knows work for St James’ … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, IFA, Martin bamford, St James Place, Wealth
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Help of the helpless – the destitute world of the GAA
The words of the song are apt for the Governance Advisory Arrangements I have read. With the exception of that of Mobius they are either elegies for what might have been or a convenient way of getting round … Continue reading
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Tagged Equitable, GAA, Gaurdian, Governance Advisory Arrangement, Mobius Life, St James Place, Wesleyan
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