Technological advancements and regulatory reforms are presenting new challenges to the traditional financial advice profession. The streamlining of investment decision making is giving investors the opportunity to exercise greater autonomy over their savings decisions and execution. With many...

For a vast majority of investors today, the abundance of investment offerings, whether shares, bonds, investment funds or investment trusts is overwhelming. Many investors who want or need to manage their investments lack the confidence or financial capability to create and maintain an...

The objectives of retirement investing have not changed: to provide an expected quality of life in retirement. What has changed is how that objective, or benefit, is funded. The recent changes to UK legislation on DC pensions mean that there is no longer the obligation, for most retirees, to use...

Consumer demand and regulatory changes in the UK, is driving growth of innovative solutions that are easier to use, simpler to understand, offer good value for money, and create better customer outcomes. A key tool in this growing sector are asset allocation funds such as Target Date Funds...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to analyze reliability characteristics of batch service queuing system with a single server model that envisages Poisson input process and exponential service times under first come, first served (FCFS) queue discipline. Design/methodology/approach: With the...

When investing in shares or funds, one of the natural concerns of any investor is whether it is the ‘right time' to buy the investment and what measures can be taken to mitigate the risk of buying an investment when the price is very high. Pound-cost averaging (known as ‘dollar-cost...

There are numerous studies that examine the impact of social media on the stock market performance but there is a paucity of such evidences from the emerging economies. Today many multinational banks and other financial conglomerates from the developed countries are expanding their operations to...