For almost 9 years Bradbury Hamilton has explored different service propositions to sit within the fee based model. Over this time we’ve developed a structure which allows for fixed fee, hourly fee and percentage based charging depending on the type of work undertaken for our clients, it’s size and complexity. But until recently, pricing the work you do for clients could be relatively straightforward. Charging nothing explicitly for products that attracted trail commission a

The pace of change in the IFA business has quickened to such an extent in the past few years that it has left many advisors thinking about their future and that of the businesses they’ve worked so hard to build up. RDR and the end of Trail Commission by 2016 has meant that the opportunities that once existed for smaller firms have vanished, leaving a difficult and uncertain future ahead. Many advisors who are in the last phase of their careers are looking to retire, whilst so

A company that has immense skill, know-how and expertise but has no way of packaging, presenting and promoting what it does will fail to attract clients. Irrespective of how good the business is at adding value, it’s all for nothing if nobody knows. On the other hand, a company that promotes itself endlessly and attracts a wide audience, but lacks the skill or the expertise to live up to its promises or carry out its pledges will fail just as quickly, but often in the glare o