Ken Davy, the founder and Chairman of The SimplyBiz Group is a true industry heavyweight and is greatly respected by across the financial services sector, and by other business leaders. Ken regularly shares his views on some of the pertinent issues shaping our landscape and provides a unique insight into some of the issues of the past and the future in the press. Read his most recent columns below:
During this time of unprecedented turmoil, communication will be absolutely key and will significantly help to strengthen both your relationships with clients and your business, once the coronavirus crisis is behind us
Ken Davy discusses the regulator’s latest communication and hopes that it will see more protection for both consumers and advisers.
Read about Ken Davy’s views on the highlights and low points of the past twelve months in the world of advice.
If it is not the job of the regulator to ban unsuitable products, then whose is it?
Ken Davy discusses why silos may be good for grain, but not for fairer, simpler, less costly and more effective savings everyone
Too many consumers who took advantage of pension freedoms to access their pension pot, and find that now, just a few short years later, the money cupboard is bare.
To address the shortage of financial advisers, firms of every size, along with service companies, providers and networks will all need to rally round and act.
At this year’s MDRT in Miami, one message kept coming up - we all know that our clients are able to enjoy more satisfying lives when their protection and savings needs are in good order. Doing a better job for clients enables them, and you, to live a more comfortable, fulfilling and balanced life.
Group Chairman Ken Davy looks at the virtue, rather than the vice, currently underway in Miami.
Our Chairman warns about the dangers of former advisers reinventing themselves as ambulance chasers
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During this time of unprecedented turmoil, communication will be absolutely key and will significantly help to strengthen both your relationships with clients and your business, once the coronavirus crisis is behind us
Ken Davy discusses the regulator’s latest communication and hopes that it will see more protection for both consumers and advisers.
Read about Ken Davy’s views on the highlights and low points of the past twelve months in the world of advice.
If it is not the job of the regulator to ban unsuitable products, then whose is it?
Ken Davy discusses why silos may be good for grain, but not for fairer, simpler, less costly and more effective savings everyone
Too many consumers who took advantage of pension freedoms to access their pension pot, and find that now, just a few short years later, the money cupboard is bare.
To address the shortage of financial advisers, firms of every size, along with service companies, providers and networks will all need to rally round and act.
At this year’s MDRT in Miami, one message kept coming up - we all know that our clients are able to enjoy more satisfying lives when their protection and savings needs are in good order. Doing a better job for clients enables them, and you, to live a more comfortable, fulfilling and balanced life.
Group Chairman Ken Davy looks at the virtue, rather than the vice, currently underway in Miami.
Our Chairman warns about the dangers of former advisers reinventing themselves as ambulance chasers