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The Boring Money Best Buy Awards 2025 are coming

Now in their seventh year, the Boring Money Best Buy Awards continue to be used by the end consumer, who uses our impartial perspective, our deep dives into technical information and the voice of fellow customers to inform their choices.

Pensions Report 2024

Pensions Report 2024

The Pensions Report 2024 provides a detailed look at pension ownership and explores consumer sentiment, behaviours and needs with regards to pensions in the UK. The report will focus on understanding the customer journey for pension holders at different life-stages, supporting retail firms to identify the most effective messaging to attract pension holders across the consumer spectrum.

When the Carrot Meets the Stick

When the Carrot Meets the Stick

As the industry develops its thinking on the Advice Guidance Boundary Review, “When The Carrot Meets The Stick” considers the consumer need and industry opportunity which this brings.

Supported by Just Group and Wealth Wizards, this white paper sizes the Advice Gap, considers the potential for targeted support, assesses the role which hybrid guidance and advice can play and shares learnings from live tests conducted with Boring Money readers.

Vulnerable Customers Report 2024

Understanding Vulnerable Customers 2024

The Understanding Vulnerable Customers 2024 report aims to provide platforms, asset managers, and advice firms with critical insights into the characteristics and needs of vulnerable investors. This year, the report focuses on addressing the challenges posed by the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Consumer Duty requirements, helping firms better understand and serve vulnerable customers.


Advice Report 2024

Advice Report 2024

The report is designed to help all consumer-facing business in the investments, pensions and advice sector to understand the consumer needs and appetite, size the opportunity, confirm strategic priorities and evidence business plans.


Sustainable Investing - Demand and Disclosure

Sustainable Investing - Demand and Disclosure

The report outlines consumer awareness and interest in sustainable investments over the past year, with valuable insights on their comprehension of sustainable investment concepts and labeling, and recommendations for providers in response to the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.

Online Investing Report 2024

Online Investing Report 2024

In Out, In Out, Shake it all about

Back for its 8th year, Boring Money’s Online Investing Report 2024 is coming! The report is the must-have research publication for any provider looking to set up or currently running a direct-to-consumer investment or pension business in the UK.

Pensions Report 2023 - Consolidation and change

Pensions Report 2023

This report provides a detailed look at pension ownership and consumer attitudes towards pensions in the UK and explores the appetite for pension engagement and approaches to pension pot consolidation. It also digs into the retirement journey, including financial plans for retirement, triggers to retirement and the role of semi-retirement/paid work in retirement.

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A Framework for Measuring Value for Advice Firms

The FCA’s Consumer Duty requires regulated financial providers to evidence that they are providing good outcomes for the end customer. This report introduces a framework that can be used as a tool by advice firms to measure and benchmark the outcomes they are providing for their clients.

Citywire | The Advice Show Podcast

Holly Mackay joins Benchmark's Ed Dymott to explore the 27 drivers of ‘fair value’ and what clients are looking for from their advisers.

A new Consumer Duty

Following the July 31 deadline, we have been working with leading firms on implementation on all necessary reviews across products and services to ensure they are consumer duty complaint.

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