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Market Comment 1st Mar 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Friday, 05 March 2010 00:00 |
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Hasn’t it been nice to get a little sun this week? With things looking a little better outside and more good news stories to make us feel more hopeful for the future, it is easy to forget that our industry faces some very serious issues at the moment. Not to bring anyone down, we just thought that it would be interesting to think a little about something which should have financial advisors everywhere up in arms – we have had dual pricing for a while now but what about dual regulation or what might be called shocking prejudice by financial regulators towards IFAs and mortgage brokers in favour of banks?
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:00 |
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Market Comment 22nd Feb 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Friday, 26 February 2010 00:00 |
Some Facts about Private Medical Insurance
- The average annual premium is between £700 and £900
- Providers pay up to 55% commission with 5% trail payments
- Only 10% of the population has any form of Private Medical Insurance
- "Moratorium” ie “fast track” applications only contain 4 medical questions
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We were thinking of starting this piece with the usual ‘times are tough’, 'brokers need to diversify' type statements; the kind of thing that is trotted out time and time again in the press. Then we thought we could just skip over these hackneyed statements cut to the chase:
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 15:34 |
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Market Comment 15th Feb 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00 |
“House prices jump 3.2 per cent in four weeks”
The average cost of a home has climbed 6.1 per cent over the past year, according to Rightmove.co.uk
“Property drifts towards years of no growth”
As house prices in Britain are poised for a double dip, we look at whether the time is ripe for remortgaging
The headlines above from The Times are pretty much what we are used to by now. Plenty of doom and gloom and the occasional piece that says: “signs of recovery”. Certainly predictions are impossible when we are faced with so many opposing views. And add to that the fact that political messages over the state of the economy are likely to polarize over the next few months with the election looming and predicting the future state of the economy by reading the popular media will only get harder.
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 14:55 |
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Market Comment 8th Feb 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Friday, 12 February 2010 00:00 |
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From next week we are happy to announce we will be offering all our clients a new online back-up service which will be powered by the Risc Group. More information will follow on this but the basic back-up storage solution will allow you to back up one GB of information for only 99p. Discounts will be available for more storage space of 5, 10, and 15 GB and above. With this in mind we thought it might be useful to add some links here for some pages with information on data protection. This is a broad topic and goes well beyond how data is stored and maintained but is vital information for any business.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:58 |
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Market Comment 2nd Feb 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Friday, 05 February 2010 00:00 |
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This week we put a link to an article on twitter (Follow us here: twitter.com/trigoldcrystal) about the opportunities in helping consumers with debt. A national Audit office report says that 270,000 had been seen by the Citizens advice service since April 2006 to September 2009. This has been backed by government spending of £130m which has gone to Citizens Advice and other charities to help with over in-debtedness.
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 14:44 |
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Market Comment 25th Jan 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Monday, 25 January 2010 00:00 |
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You’ll see this week that the massive brand changes that are going on all around us in the banking industry are filtering down to Prospector with the RBS IP brand now being replaced by NatWest Intermediary Solutions, so please look out for the lender name change when sourcing.
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 14:44 |
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Market Comment 18th Jan 2010 |
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Written by TrigoldCrystal Marketing Manager
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Monday, 18 January 2010 00:00 |
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This week we linked to two interesting articles on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/TrigoldCrystal. One was a review of all the apps that are available for the iPhone to help with money management. The other one is a discussion about consumers taking out loans to cover mortgage deposits.
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 14:45 |
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