Our MD Dennis Hall is presenting at the Life Planning Conference in London on the 4th February.
You can see a short press piece about the conference in Money Marketing. There is more information on the conference in the events section of the Kinder Institure website.
First a confession, I’m not an avid garden, but I found a segment on Radio 4’s farming today relevant to the financial advice industry.
Pauline Pears from Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, was talking about a piece of research on a simple solution to a gardener’s pest control problem.
Research by the National Vegetable Research Station showed surrounding cabbage plants with a square of carpet underlay about 5×5 cm is as effective as any pesticide in controlling cabbage root fly, a common pest that eats (as the name suggests) cabbage roots.
Pauline goes on to say, “I think one of the main problems for gardeners is their main source of advice is the garden centre, and garden centres sell products, they don’t sell ideas.”
I would lump a majority of advisers in the ‘garden centre’ category. As our clients know one thing that makes Yellowtail’s approach unique is that we are paid a fee for the advice we provide, not the products we sell.
Dennis Hall appeared on BBC 2′s Working Lunch programme today before the Bank of England’s latest interest rate decision.
Dennis answered questions on the impact of a cut on interest rates on savers, whether it is a good idea to take out a fixed rate savings product to lock in higher rates, and the neede to keep rainy day money available in these uncertain times.
