Corporate Adviser
  • Content Hubs
  • Magazine
  • Alerts
  • Events
  • Video
    • Master Trust Conference 2024 videos
  • Research & Guides
  • About
  • Contact
  • Home
  • News
  • In Depth
  • Profile
  • Pensions
    • Auto-enrolment
    • DB
    • DC
    • Defaults
    • Investment
    • Master Trusts
    • Sipps & SSAS
    • Taxation
  • Group Risk
    • Group Life
    • Group IP
    • Group CIC
    • Mental Health
    • Rehab
    • Wellbeing
  • Healthcare
    • Musculoskeletal
    • Mental Health
    • IPT
    • Wellbeing
    • Trusts
    • Cash Plans
  • Wellbeing
    • Mental Health
    • Health & Wellbeing
    • Financial resilience
  • ESG
No Result
View All Result
Corporate Adviser
No Result
View All Result

CA Summit 2008: Independence remains core to intermediary values

by admin
November 7, 2008
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Pinterest

“The providers that have bought advisory firms have done so because they believe that there is value in the distribution chain and not because they wanted to control the advisers,” Lawson said. “There is always a danger when you try to impose a view on advisers you risk losing them. they don’t want to be fettered by the views of the adviser.”

The firm’s head of pensions policy said IFA investments were treated as an arms-length investment rather than a new distribution channels.

“We have not seen any effects on the firms that we have bought stakes in, both in terms of the advice given or our business volumes from them increasing,” said Lawson.

He said any life company that acquires an intermediary and does try to impose its views on it risks sparking a mass exodus of its top advisers.

Nick Burns, a director at PIFC which was bought by Axa last year, agrees. He said: “We are currently going through a rebrand and one of the core brand values for us is the term ‘independent’. So independence it is – for now.”

VIDEO FROM ROYAL LONDON


Find out more about how to support the switching of a workplace pension

Corporate Adviser Special Report

REQUEST YOUR COPY

Most Popular

  • Howden and Barnett Waddingham profile: Consolidation drive

  • Unum acquires renewal rights to Generali UK’s employee benefits business

  • EAPs under pressure

  • Mercer: The death of default retirement

  • Scottish Widows makes two appointments to IGC

  • Cash plan market continues to expand: CA Corporate Cash and Dental Plans Report

Corporate Adviser

© 2017-2024 Definite Article Media Limited. Design by 71 Media Limited.

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy policy
  • T&Cs
  • Contact

Follow Us

X
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • In Depth
  • Profile
  • Pensions
    • Auto-enrolment
    • DB
    • DC
    • Defaults
    • Investment
    • Master Trusts
    • Sipps & SSAS
    • Taxation
  • Group Risk
    • Group Life
    • Group IP
    • Group CIC
    • Mental Health
    • Rehab
    • Wellbeing
  • Healthcare
    • Musculoskeletal
    • Mental Health
    • IPT
    • Wellbeing
    • Trusts
    • Cash Plans
  • Wellbeing
    • Mental Health
    • Health & Wellbeing
    • Financial resilience
  • ESG

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • In Depth
  • Profile
  • Pensions
    • Auto-enrolment
    • DB
    • DC
    • Defaults
    • Investment
    • Master Trusts
    • Sipps & SSAS
    • Taxation
  • Group Risk
    • Group Life
    • Group IP
    • Group CIC
    • Mental Health
    • Rehab
    • Wellbeing
  • Healthcare
    • Musculoskeletal
    • Mental Health
    • IPT
    • Wellbeing
    • Trusts
    • Cash Plans
  • Wellbeing
    • Mental Health
    • Health & Wellbeing
    • Financial resilience
  • ESG

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.