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Professional Adviser (11.09.24) - PII focus: What providers want to see from IFA policyholders
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Here’s how to talk to your clients about financial vulnerability
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Why identification is so crucial in supporting vulnerable clients
With nearly a year having passed since Consumer Duty came into effect, we regularly hear how pleased firms are with the interventions...
A Best Practice Guide: our five top tips when working with vulnerable clients
In March 2024, the FCA announced that it will be conducting a new review into firms’ understanding and response to the needs of...
What’s the difference between a vulnerability and a vulnerable circumstance?
With six months under our belts since the implementation of the FCA’s Consumer Duty, many firms have implemented processes that will...
Why identification is so crucial in supporting vulnerable clients
With nearly a year having passed since Consumer Duty came into effect, we regularly hear how pleased firms are with the interventions...
A Best Practice Guide: our five top tips when working with vulnerable clients
In March 2024, the FCA announced that it will be conducting a new review into firms’ understanding and response to the needs of...
The Intermediary (26.06.24) - Identification is crucial to support vulnerable clients
Identification is crucial to support vulnerable clients (page 19)...
IFA Magazine (18.06.24) - A best-practice guide for client vulnerability: practical tips
A best-practice guide for client vulnerability: practical tips...
FT Adviser (05.06.24) - Five common mistakes advisers make with client vulnerability
Five common mistakes advisers make with client vulnerability...
Financial Reporter (16.05.24) - Working with vulnerable clients – a best-practice guide for advisers
Working with vulnerable clients – a best-practice guide for advisers...
IFA Magazine (10.05.24) - Navigating the ethical aisle: How financial services can embrace fairness with the shopping cart theory
Navigating the ethical aisle: How financial services can embrace fairness with the shopping cart theory...
IFA Magazine (20.03.24) - Wealth is not an insulator against vulnerability says Comentis’ Barrett
Wealth is not an insulator against vulnerability says Comentis’ Barrett...
What’s the difference between a vulnerability and a vulnerable circumstance?
With six months under our belts since the implementation of the FCA’s Consumer Duty, many firms have implemented processes that will...
Launch of Equity Release Mental Capacity Assessment
In partnership with Equilaw, we are very proud to announce that we have launched a ground-breaking equity release mental capacity...
What's the Outlook for Vulnerability?
As we continue into 2024, we can draw on our insights gained from last year and summarise what we feel might come next from a regulatory...
How does financial vulnerability affect those in later life?
For many of us, retirement is seen as a longed-for period of leisure at the end of years of working and raising a family, however later...
What's Next for Consumer Duty?
Consumer Duty has been in place for nearly five months and the feedback we are getting from industry compliance experts is that some...
Vulnerability at Retirement
As people age, different types of vulnerability or vulnerable circumstances may present themselves, and as our ageing population...
Why wealth doesn't insulate against vulnerability
With Consumer Duty regulations now in place, never has financial vulnerability been a hotter topic. Advisers will need to demonstrate...
Consumer Duty: 31st July marked the beginning of the vulnerability journey
With Consumer Duty regulations having come into effect on 31st July 2023, many businesses might have seen the preceding few weeks as the...
Top 5 Vulnerability Myth Busters
The issue of #vulnerablecustomers has been increasingly on the radar of firms that fall under the watchful eye of the Financial Conduct...
Vulnerability - what progress has been made and what can we expect in 2023?
Towards the end of last year, the FCA’s latest Financial Lives survey found that the number of adults with low financial resilience had...
Why mortgage advisers need to take client vulnerability seriously
Unpicking the 10 new rules focused on vulnerability in The Consumer Duty When the FCA sent its ‘Dear CEO’ letter on 16 June 2022 to over...
The challenge of recording and reporting on financial vulnerabilities
We have covered at length the different types of vulnerabilities and the challenges in identifying them, but one question we frequently...
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