The Advice Gap 2024
The study blends research from 2,000 consumers and over 200 advice professionals on the lang cat’s advice panel.
Advice gap report
This report explores the impact of the cost of living crisis on consumers’ savings and investments. It also looks perceptions of value for money.
House Rules
The equity release industry has faced an uphill battle to shed the negative perceptions which have followed it around for the last several decades. While not unreasonable, those perceptions are largely outdated and this paper looks at it through fresh eyes.
Signal to noise: Barriers to transfer business
We’re not giving anything away when we say that the platform transfer market is not performing as well as it could for anyone involved.
Retirement income in the direct platform market
Take a look retirement income solutions currently on offer to direct investors and how effectively those investors are being supported in making decisions and taking income.
MS17/1.2 First Response to FCA’s Market Study
Our response to the FCA’s Investment Platforms Market Study (IPMS).
MS15/2.3 what you need to do now
Few regulatory updates have had quite the build up of the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study Final Report.
Come and have a go: are you being served?
Catch up on the lang cat’s fourth, yes, fourth – annual guide to direct platform investing is artfully constructed.