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Revealed: What paraplanners think about IHT, AI and the future of advice

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Paraplanning for LGBTQ+ clients: what we might be missing

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The Self-Assembly Paraplanning Show for October 2026

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How advice tech should work for paraplanners (not the other way round)

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What living with cancer means for financial planning

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A tune up on temporary pension income guarantees

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What the Dickens do wills and LPAs actually say?

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The Self-Assembly Paraplanning Show for September 2026

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Westminster Watch: Burnham, budgets and by-elections

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IHT: the details that could trip up paraplanners

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A dead interesting Assembly on death and dying

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The Self-Assembly Paraplanning Show for August 2026

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Fiscal drag and what paraplanners can do about it

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Ask Adam: a pension comprehension intervention

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Unpacking platform charges with Transact CEO Tom Dunbar

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And the winner is…paraplanning!

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Pensions and IHT: what the new rules will mean for paraplanners

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The Self-Assembly Paraplanning Show

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What it’s like to start an outsourced paraplanning business?

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Westminster watch: politics, pensions and paraplanners

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Trusts: brush up on the essentials in one hour

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SEND and financial planning: what paraplanners need to know

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Wrapper choices, changing rules and what they mean for clients

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Almost everything you need to know about smoothed funds

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How salary sacrifice works, what can go wrong, and what's changing

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The financial planning assumptions that don’t work for women

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Protection and IHT planning: a guide to the essentials for paraplanners

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What can the professional bodies do for you? Part 2

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Steve Sayer’s timeline of tax changes – all the way to April 2031

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Tune up your tax year end to-do list

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IHT and pensions: could the government still change course?

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AI in paraplanning: what does the future hold for paraplanners?

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AI in paraplanning: what's happening, what's working, and what could come next?

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Budget reality versus Budget rumours: what actually happened?

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A guide to auto-enrolment essentials for paraplanners

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What can the professional bodies do for you?

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Technically speaking: deeds of variation, disclaimers and tax

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Lump sum cancellations: what does the FCA and HMRC's clarification mean for clients?

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Revealed: the results of Scottish Widows’ annual survey of UK paraplanners

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Level up your retirement advice: navigate the tools that matter most

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Looking forward to The Big Day Out 2025

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Developing as a paraplanner: 'How do I build a career plan?'

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The Pensions Commission: what could it mean for retirement planning?

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The pension IHT bombshell has landed – now what?

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The State Pension age review: what paraplanners need to know

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Developing as a paraplanner: 'Where could I go from here?'

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Tax wrappers: which, why and when?

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Breaking into paraplanning: 'Who should I work for?'

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IHT and pensions changes: what's happening and when?

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How can paraplanners help clients get retirement risk zone ready?

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Trusts and offshore bonds: options for IHT planning

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Breaking into paraplanning: 'Where do I even start?'

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How paraplanners can transform women’s financial fortunes

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A guide to annuity essentials for paraplanners: part two

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How to stay ahead in paraplanning (despite the relentless change)

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A guide to investment bond essentials for paraplanners

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A plain English guide to new pensions jargon: part two

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A guide to business protection essentials for paraplanners

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A plain English guide to new pensions jargon: part one

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A guide to annuity essentials for paraplanners

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Les Cameron on pensions, death and taxes

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What do new residency rules mean for your IHT planning?

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A guide to protection essentials for paraplanners

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Lifetime allowance abolition: are we there yet?

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A paraplanner's guide to giving

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Becoming a leader in paraplanning: your questions answered

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The five tech security tips paraplanners shouldn’t do without

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A second helping of ‘Is there a recipe for successful retirement income advice?’

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What kind of paraplanning leader could I be?

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What did Les Cameron learn from Labour’s Budget?

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From Parliament to paraplanner: How do Budget measures become law?

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How to level up your retirement income planning (in one lunch hour)

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An offshore Case Study Investigation: time apportionment relief, personal portfolio bonds and deficiency relief

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Revealed: What do paraplanners REALLY think about paraplanning?

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Cracking the inheritance tax code: a case study in calculating IHT

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Client cash and platforms: what every paraplanner needs to know

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The Consumer Duty: what can paraplanners learn one year on?

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Case study investigation: Reversionary interest trusts and the NRB

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Death. Trusts. And paraplanners.

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A bite-sized Assembly on investing for US expats

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Post-LTA essentials for paraplanners

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Is there a recipe for successful retirement income advice?

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A bite-sized Assembly on fixed interest investments

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How do model portfolio services work on platforms?

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When should AIM be in the frame for IHT planning?

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What does it take to get a reliable cashflow forecast around here?

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CSI: getting to the bottom of top slicing relief

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Bonus Q&A: Les Cameron's guide to the new allowances landscape

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Les Cameron’s guide to the new allowances landscape

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Paraplanning in the Age of AI

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What do paraplanners need to know following the Budget?

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A special tax year end Assembly

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The state of the paraplanning nation

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The Consumer Duty: how’s it going so far?

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Is it time to challenge your assumptions about planning assumptions?

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What happens at a platform when you transfer pensions and investments?

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A bite-sized Assembly on rebalancing (from a platform's point of view)

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A bite-sized Assembly on forecasting

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Property, pensions and paraplanning

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A bite-sized Assembly on what happens when you place a trade on a platform