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William Robins

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Covers:  The business of global asset management Fund distribution Financial Advice/Planning Investment: funds, markets, economics, ESG Pensions/tax Regulation/compliance Professional Development
Creating editorial for asset management community at Citywire. Formerly editor of New Model Adviser. Rowing, cycling, all that jazz. Philosophy. Fig grower.
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Prepare for the next Attenborough effect today

Prepare for the next Attenborough effect today

Citywire — Clients will be motivated by culture. In a roundtable for NMA’s ESG special last year, adviser Lisa Hardman said her specialist firm, Investing Ethically, had seen a sharp increase in enquiries from clients, many of whom had tried to have a conversation with their existing adviser but had ‘lost faith’. Asked what had caused the ‘phenomenal’ inflow, Hardman was unequivocal: David Attenborough’s documentary Blue Planet II.
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Funding Fertility: How financial planning helped our IVF journey

Funding Fertility: How financial planning helped our IVF journey

Citywire — A personal account of how my wife and I self-funded our fertility treatment, explaining the UK fertility treatment funding lottery as well as our experience with two financial planners who helped us reach this momentous goal.
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Editor: There are three exits to ESG maze, but you can't stand still!

Editor: There are three exits to ESG maze, but you can't stand still!

Citywire — Brexit may have let IFAs off the hook from new disclosure rules, but a UK version will come. The ESG boulder is already rolling. Grab your bullwhip and get ready!
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Joining the Quiteratti? Planners leave Twitter for peace of mind

Joining the Quiteratti? Planners leave Twitter for peace of mind

Citywire — Twitter’s financial planning community is shrinking. Have lessons in self-care and wellbeing turned people off the often angry and adversarial social platform?
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NMA inspires CISI to publish free emergency guidance kits

NMA inspires CISI to publish free emergency guidance kits

Citywire — I believe there is an opportunity here for the profession to do good and be seen to do good at a time when countless individuals and families must be full of worry about their financial futures
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Editor's comment: Hey providers, speed up!

Editor's comment: Hey providers, speed up!

Citywire — A report by NextWealth and the Personal Finance Society revealed the cost of slow provider service for IFAs. It is time providers caught up.
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More than a sticking plaster: how advice is solving NHS taper trap

More than a sticking plaster: how advice is solving NHS taper trap

Citywire — Advice firm Barnaby Cecil is helping doctors reorganise their pensions, but the biggest lesson for clients is to look at the bigger picture.
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Editor: Woodford isn’t a stick to beat IFAs with

Editor: Woodford isn’t a stick to beat IFAs with

Citywire — Some commentators have tried sweeping up IFAs in the demise of Neil Woodford's fund business, but most advisers realised the risk of investing with the former star manager a long time ago.
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As a client, I know free planning could change lives

As a client, I know free planning could change lives

Citywire — This Financial Planning Week hundreds of people will be helped to unravel their financial problems. As a paying financial planning client I know the huge value even modest planning can have.
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SJP tells advisers to cite broker report putting charges at 2%

SJP tells advisers to cite broker report putting charges at 2%

Citywire — National advice firm St James's Place approved its advisers use of Numis report that calculated the average annualized cost to its clients to be 2%, equivalent, it says, to IFAs and cheaper than some of its rivals. This was an exclusive in the wake of the Sunday Times's series of articles on SJP's 'cruise and cufflinks' incentives culture.
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Special Report - What Fund Selectors want

Special Report - What Fund Selectors want

Citywire — A special report I steered and edited but contributed to by other people on my team. A high value piece of research, combing an exclusive survey of fund selectors (our readers' clients) with commentary from senior salespeople.
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'Fitting in was costing people' Why Capital Group asks about sexuality

'Fitting in was costing people' Why Capital Group asks about sexuality

Citywire — CG's Europe and Asia president Hamish Forsyth is joined by the group's diversity and Pride network leaders to discuss how it supports LGBTQ+ staff and why it is collecting data.
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Four factors slashing your fees (plus one bright spot)

Four factors slashing your fees (plus one bright spot)

Citywire — AUM targets, large mandates and clients' hunger for a good deal is adding to fee pressure.
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How much should you be earning?

How much should you be earning?

Citywire — Amplify's exclusive pay survey reveals how small firms can offer big rewards for salespeople.
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Schroders inclusion head: We can't fight over female talent

Schroders inclusion head: We can't fight over female talent

Citywire — Schroders was the judges' choice at last year's Citywire Gender Diversity Awards. The firm's head of inclusion, Sonia Jenkins, explains how the firm is trying to drive numbers from within.
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Too responsible to be 'sustainable': A guide to ESG fund name changes

Too responsible to be 'sustainable': A guide to ESG fund name changes

Citywire — Citywire Amplify discovers 100 funds adopting ESG-related names, such as 'sustainable' and 'impact', with some even switching between the two. Why?
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