Now it's all Principles-Based

During 2007, we took our two complementary resources, 'Compliance Clockwork' and 'JumpStart' and integrated them into one single package, 'Productivity Suite'.  The idea was that, whilst each of the two main components would continue to focus on quite specific areas of your business function, everything would be easily accessible from one common screen. 

Whilst these materials continue to be made available to our Members, increasingly we are developing brand new resources which comply with, and actively implement, the FSA's new 'Principles-Based' regulatory approach.

This page provides an 'at a glance' summary of our new resources:

Current Resources
Best Practice Platform - Version 1.3	Our practical, comprehensive application of COBS, covering every aspect of the new regs with a minimum of jargon.
Compliance Documentation Pack	An easily-customised, comprehensive pack of every compliance document regulated IFA firms are likely to require.
New Model FactFind	Our COBS-friendly, interactive PDF FactFind, which allows the adviser to annotate their data, verify its significance, confirm its completion, and run basic financial diagnostics.
New Business Register	New format Excel spreadsheet, enabling Members to categorise every item of business, caters for fee-based or commission offset work, and doubles up as an essential supervisory tool for our Network.
Compliance Review Resources	We publish our Compliance Visit Questionnaire and File Review sheets so our Members know exactly what standards we are looking for.
Fee-Based Advice Guide - Version 6	The latest version of our pragmatic and entirely practical implementation framework for firms looking to develop a fee-based strand to their firm's services
Pensions Advice Workbook	Our 'first-draft' of a 'Principles-Based' interactive workbook for the pensions adviser.
Currently under development
Old JumpStart	Our unique Practice Development resource, aimed at IFAs working with/in Accountancy practices is undergoing a complete revamp.  Expect two new volumes, one containing the very latest insights into profitable practice, and the other containing a range of customised resources, ready-to use.
Old Compliance Clockwork	We are taking some of the better optional add-ons from this tool, and are building them into the new JumpStart.
New Model FactFind Calculator	We've almost cracked it!  An Excel FactFind which allows 'freeform' listings of existing provisions, and then subsequent categorisation, with automatic fund updates over the internet, plus a whole range of useful reports plus a series of diagnostic charts that become more meaningful the more data gets added.  And, if that were not enough to get you frothing at the mouth, simple integration with one of the best financial-planning packages on the market.