Search the internet and you will find numerous websites that offer independent financial advice to expats. But are they offering independent financial advice?We find that many expats did not get …
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Final Salary Pension Sign Offs
Are final salary pension sign offs actually advice about pensions or just sign offs? There is a difference. The Chartered Insurance Institute ( CII ) has recently issued all its members …
Tailormade’s Yearly Review | 2017
Happy New Year and all the best for 2018 from everyone at TailorMade Pensions. What a year 2017 was for us, and we hope it was good for you as …
Happy MiFID II Day
Today is the launch date of MiFID II MiFID II is to ensure fairer, safer and more efficient markets and facilitate greater transparency for all participants. More information about MiFID II …
EU Passporting
A recent article in International Adviser about EU passporting caught my eye. This was a case where the FCA have admitted that UK resident consumers may struggle to understand how …
Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 2)
This is the second part of the blog about Pension Scams and what you can do to avoid them. Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 1) …
What are ‘Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products – PRIIPs’
Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products – PRIIPs Packaged retail investment and insurance-based products (PRIIPs) is a broad category of financial assets that are regularly provided to consumers in the …
Shell Pension Scheme
The Shell Pension Scheme, the non-UK scheme being the Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund, seems to have become a target for pension scammers and poor advice. We outline some simple …
Will this bull market ever end?
Bull market(s) – when should you be considering doing the opposite of everyone else? For those clients who need reminding of a bull market and bear market, and what they …
Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 1)
Pension scams have been rife since the implementation of A Day. They are so sophisticated now that their marketing and paperwork can appear legitimate to all those other than a …