IFA Promotion launches enhanced hotline & web service for finding local unbiased financial advice

 

- Locate IFAs to fit your financial priorities at www.unbiased.co.uk or
call IFA Promotion free on 0800 085 3250 -

IFA Promotion, the organisation promoting the benefits of independent financial advice, today launched its revamped hotline and website service for finding details of local IFAs. The substantial overhaul of IFA Promotion's existing service means that people can now obtain up-to-the-minute information on over 9,000 regulated IFA firms UK-wide, including those focusing on stakeholder pensions, equity release schemes and financial planning for expatriates. These additions mean IFA Promotion now offers 17 areas of financial planning, from which people can select; these are:

  • Personal retirement planning
  • Healthcare/ long-term care
  • ISAs/ unit trusts
  • Tax planning
  • Ethical investments
  • Residential mortgages
  • Equity release
  • Personal pensions
  • Investment & saving
  • Investment trusts
  • Offshore investments
  • Stockbroking services
  • Stakeholder pensions
  • Expatriate services
  • Group/ stakeholder pensions*
  • Group protection/ life*
  • Commercial mortgages*
    * Advice for businesses


In addition, callers to the hotline or website visitors can request details of firms offering execution-only services or access to a female IFA.

Commenting on the new service, David Elms of IFA Promotion said, "Last year saw a 44% increase in people looking for independent financial advice through our hotline and website. The service launched today remains the most comprehensive and accurate IFA search facility available, but improved to reflect the changing financial needs and priorities of our users."

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For further information please contact:

David Elms
Marketing Director
IFA Promotion
020 7833 3131/
07803 603 659
    or     Richard Winder/ Shellie Wells
Lansons Communications
020 7490 8828

Notes to Editors

1. Independent Financial Adviser Promotion

Independent Financial Adviser Promotion Ltd. was established in 1989 to promote the value and accessibility of independent financial advice to the public. It represents over 9,000 registered individual independent financial advisers across the UK and is sponsored by 31 leading financial institutions. In 2000, over 130,000 people contacted IFA Promotion for details of local independent financial advisers.

IFA Promotion's central belief is:

"Consumers have a right to financial advice that is independent of the providers of financial products - i.e. independent financial advice."

Furthermore 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. IFA should be available in the location of the consumer's 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 Promotion's sponsors

Barclays Global Investors Funds
BUPA
Canada Life
Clerical Medical Investment Group
Dresdner RCM Funds (UK) Ltd.
Eagle Star
Family Assurance Friendly Society Ltd
Friends Provident
INVESCO Fund Managers Ltd
Investec Asset Management
Legal & General
Mercury Asset Management
National Mutual
National Savings
Norwich Union Life
NPI
        Prudential Intermediary Division
Scottish Amicable Life Plc
Scottish Equitable Plc
Scottish Life Assurance Company
Scottish Mutual Assurance Plc
Scottish Provident Institution
Scottish Widows plc
Standard Life Assurance Company
Sun Life Swiss Life (UK) plc
The Skandia Group of Companies
Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society
UNUM Ltd
Winterthur Life UK Ltd
Zurich Life Assurance Company

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