{"id":5053,"date":"2016-02-17T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-can-we-get-financial-advice-when-the-fees-they-charge-are-huge\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T07:02:41","slug":"how-can-we-get-financial-advice-when-the-fees-they-charge-are-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-can-we-get-financial-advice-when-the-fees-they-charge-are-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we get financial advice when the fees they charge are huge?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe firms we found are all targeting clients with upwards of \u00a350,000 My wife and I want advice on pensions, life assurance and mortgages to help plan our future. We both have NHS pensions and I have a company group pension with about \u00a33,500 in it. However, one adviser said such advice would cost several thousand pounds, and when I looked at the VouchedFor website \u2013 recommended by the Association of Professional Financial Advisers \u2013 the firms it listed were seeking clients with wealth upwards of \u00a350,000. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The firms we found are all targeting clients with upwards of \u00a350,000 My wife and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-1jv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":74686,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-steel-pension-scheme-members-preyed-on-by-financial-firms\/","url_meta":{"origin":5053,"position":0},"title":"British Steel pension scheme members \u2018preyed on\u2019 by financial firms","date":"December 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r MPs hear claims that financial advisers are targeting steelworkers so they can pocket huge feesFirms dubbed \u201csharks\u201d and \u201cvultures\u201d are preying on steelworkers to persuade them to transfer their pensions so advisers can pocket huge fees, MPs heard this week. 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