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New 'Find a Mortgage IFA' online service launched by IFA Promotion

In the same way that IFAPs general Find an IFA search on www.unbiased.co.uk operates people can also search using additional selection criteria including postcode, gender plus IFA and mortgage specific qualifications. Currently 5,318 incremental qualifications are listed on the www.impartial.co.uk Mortgage IFA database.

 

Karen Barrett, Marketing Director of IFA Promotion comments: Arranging a mortgage is one of the biggest single financial commitments any of us make, and therefore one of the biggest triggers to consider other financial products.  We have therefore been working behind the scenes to build a confidential service that focuses specifically on Mortgage IFAs, who can offer whole market advice to people, not only on all aspects of the mortgage remit, but also on additional investment and insurance products which may be purchased at the same time. 

 

She continued: We have been liaising with our members to collate this information, and we have built a service that offers the same unique features found on www.unbiased.co.uk.  In much the same way that people can select an IFA by location, gender, expertise and qualification, they can now do this on the new website for Mortgage IFAs.

 

Both www.unbiased.co.uk and www.impartial.co.uk will run in tandem and both search facilities are available on IFAPs freephone hotline, 0800 085 3250. 

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For further information, please contact:

Karen Barrett                                                  Liz Willder

Marketing Director                                           Lansons Communications

IFA Promotion                                                 020 7294 3677

020 7833 3131                                                lizw@lansons.com

   

For expert comment or case studies from over 100 media-friendly mortgage IFAs, journalists should call IFA Promotions Media Services hotline on 020 7294 3682 or search online in Media Services at www.impartial.co.uk

 

1.  Independent Financial Adviser Promotion

 

IFA Promotion was established in 1989 to promote the value and accessibility of independent financial advice to the public.  It represents around 9,000 firms of independent financial advisers across the UK and is sponsored by 30 leading financial institutions. In 2004, over 440,000 consumers and businesses used IFA Promotion to find local independent financial advice.

 

IFA Promotion believes Independent financial advice should be:

 

        Affordable.  The option to take independent financial advice should be available, by right, to all - not just the wealthiest in society.

 

        Convenient.  IFAs should be available in the location of the consumers choice, wherever they live in the UK.

 

        Transparent.  It must be clearly transparent to consumers who is able to offer independent financial advice and who is not.

 

2.      Independent Financial Adviser Promotions sponsors

Abbey	Mortgage Express
AXA Life	National Savings & Investments
Bright Grey	New Star Investment Funds
BUPA Health Services	Norwich Union Life
Canada Life Ltd	Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK)
The Childrens Mutual	Prudential
Clerical Medical Investment	Scottish Equitable Plc
DWS Investments Ltd	Scottish Life
Friends Provident	Scottish Life International
GE Life	Scottish Widows Plc
GMAC Residential Funding	Skandia UK Group
INVESCO Fund Managers Ltd	Southern Pacific Mortgage Limited
Legal & General	Standard Life Assurance Company
London Mortgage Company	Webline Limited
Lincoln Financial Group	Zurich Intermediary Group