Archive for: 2006

04 Nov 2006

Commission creep: an example from our postbag

‘Here’s a genuine reward, with not a serpent in sight’, read the blurb. We rarely single out individual firms as it can detract from the generality of an idea. Yesterday’s post to No Monkey Business (as a potential business introducer) included an example of commission bias at work but since it claims to be a response to demands from the IFA community, it does itself claim to make a general point.

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30 Oct 2006

Transparency in charges a long way off

Published in FTfm, 30th October 2006 (Pauline Skypala: on our business model)

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30 Oct 2006

A lone voice in the wilderness

So says Pauline Skypala of the FT in a nice article about No Monkey Business today

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26 Oct 2006

Market commentary

In January we posted a copy of the quarterly market commentary sent to wealth management clients of No Monkey Business Limited. We repeat the exercise here. The focus is on the risks facing financial markets in the late stages of an unusually long expansionary phase of the business cycle

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23 Oct 2006

More tall stories about industry costs

FTfm editor Pauline Skypala reports in today’s weekly review of the fund management industry that indpendent consultants Oxera have supported (in a report out later this week) the Association of British Insurers’ claims that an industry-led model for the new National Pensions Savings Scheme will not have higher costs than the centralised model (with competition by contract bids) favoured by the Turner Commission.

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