As with any new year, 2016 began with the usual onslaught of blogs and articles predicting trends. One of the main so-called ‘trends’ is that ‘content is king’. This is one trend that I take issue with. For most digital marketers this is not so much news, as it is a statement of long-held knowledge.
The UK’s burgeoning alternative finance industry has seen staggering growth year on year in 2015, and could reach more than £11bn in size by the end of this year if the current rate of expansion is maintained over the next 12 months.
Goddard Perry, the employee benefit consultants and third-party administrators, has hired financial services communications specialists MRM to help raise its profile.
There are only a couple of days left until Christmas and there’s a skeleton crew in the office. It’s just you, basically, and Monty, the office cactus. Here’s how to survive the next 24 hours.
In the second part of our new series on demographics, we ask a Baby Boomer what social media they use and what they think of financial marketing.
Is it any good though? MRM’s digital team roadtests Twitter’s new publishing feature.
Last month, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, drew attention for his cabinet with its 50:50 composition of men and women. When asked why he did this, his simple answer was ‘It’s 2015!’. But what of women’s representation in British politics?
In a matter of hours, the Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) consultation will close and – after munching roast turkey and mince pies – the Treasury and FCA will begin the process of pouring through consultation responses. But will this exercise actually achieve anything useful when it comes to tackling the UK’s worrying ‘advice gap’?
Financial services communications specialist MRM has today launched a report with views from five industry leaders on the Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR).
MRM, the London-based financial services PR consultancy, has promoted Ellis Ford, Tor Williams and Emily Chapman.
A sizeable shockwave could be on the cards for online advice next year if the latest noises coming out of Canary Wharf are anything to go by.
According to last week’s New Model Adviser article by Justin Cash, the head of the FCA’s Financial Advice Market Review Secretariat, Ed Smith, said there are a number of risks to consumers from automated or robo-advice services.
Even as alternative finance grows in popularity, investors must exercise extreme caution when assessing many of the mini-bonds coming to market.