Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations with borrowers Nationwide ramped up virtual mortgage appointments during the lockdown It now carries out more than half of its consultations online Many advisers are expected to accept voluntary redundancy By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May … Read more

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations with borrowers Nationwide ramped up virtual mortgage appointments during the lockdown It now carries out more than half of its consultations online Many advisers are expected to accept voluntary redundancy By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May … Read more

Palace insider plays down rumours of a cull of advisers after claims made by Harry and Meghan

‘Don’t expect to see heads on spikes over this’: Palace insider plays down rumours of a cull of advisers after bombshell claims made by Harry and Meghan in Oprah interview Royals and staff faced torrid week after Duke and Duchess of Sussex interview  Senior aides stayed up at night watching a feed of the conversation … Read more

Government advisers will set out who they think should be next in line for the Covid-19 jab

Government advisers are set to reveal who should be next in line for the Covid jab in the coming weeks, amid calls for teachers and police officers to be bumped up the queue when over-50s have been jabbed. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) — which makes recommendations to the UK health departments … Read more

Capita bosses in crisis talks with new advisers over turnaround plan

Capita bosses locked in crisis talks with new advisers as they battle to turn the struggling company around By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:57 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 22:57 GMT, 5 January 2021 Capita bosses are locked in crisis talks with new advisers as they battle to turn the struggling … Read more

Prime Minister overrules his advisers to hand peerage to ex-Tory treasurer

Boris Johnson in crony storm: Prime Minister overrules his advisers to hand peerage to ex-Tory treasurer who was embroiled in donations-for-access scandal The Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to ennoble City tycoon Peter Cruddas House of Lords Appointments Commission recommended he be turned down  It was claimed he offered access to then PM David Cameron … Read more

Top scientific advisers rake in £400k

Top scientific advisers rake in £400k: Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are earning a fortune during Covid-19 pandemic and have appeared on the list of best-paid civil servants for the first time Professor Chris Whitty is paid between £205,000 and £210,000, it was revealed  Meanwhile the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance is on up … Read more

Advisers set for £835m fees windfall off LSE and Refinitiv mega-merger

Advisers set for £835m fees windfall from London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv’s mega-merger By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 Advisers working on the mega-merger between the London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv are set to bag £835million in fees. … Read more

Savers struggle to hire financial advisers to cash in their pensions

All Don Forsyth wants to do is unlock the money tied up in an old pension he had forgotten about. But because the pension comes with valuable guarantees and is worth more than £30,000, he needs to pay a financial adviser to sign it off. Yet the trouble is, the 61-year-old cannot find one willing … Read more

No10 ‘will hand back control of special advisers to ministers’

The Cummings clearout: No10 ‘will hand back control of special advisers to ministers’ as maverick aide’s legacy is dramatically torched Special advisers had to report directly to Dominic Cummings under old regime But new regime led by acting chief of staff Edward Lister is tearing up old rules Means special advisers will once again report … Read more