Ruth named Leading Ethical IFA 2020
Delighted to announce that Ruth has been named Ethical IFA of the Year 2020 in top finance magazine Acquisition International's...
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RWA sponsors fundraising Music for Midsummer concert
Ruth Whitehead Associates are sponsoring a virtual concert on Friday June 26 at 8pm to celebrate midsummer and raise money...
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The charity Ruth founded donates art boxes to schoolchildren
ALL 232 pupils at St Matthias School in Stoke Newington have received beautiful art boxes brimming with pens, paints and...
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Ruth on how Covid-19 will affect new advisers
Newer advisers will be hit hardest by the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis due to their reliance on new...
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Ruth’s views on open banking
Digital financial advice service OpenMoney has partnered with open banking platform Moneyhub to offer its clients access to a wider...
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Ruth on the effect of long term mortgages on brokers
Mortgage brokers could see a decline in the number of clients needing advice as more and more consumers opt for...
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Ruth on the importance of reading the small print
Brokers have stressed the need for mortgage advice as new research showed nearly a third of consumers do not read their...
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Ruth on fair promotion of all mortgage firms
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has criticised the government for inadvertently "promoting" one adviser firm over the rest of the...
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Ruth on the importance of seeking mortgage advice
Advisers have accused the Financial Conduct Authority of doing a ‘complete 180’ regarding its stance on mortgage advice. This came...
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Ruth on lottery-style group saving start up
Following recent research highlighting the plight of the first-time buyer saving for more than a decade to achieve their deposit...
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Ruth on battling to right the wrongs of the finance industry
When Ruth Whitehead Associates managing director Ruth Whitehead says she is “proud to be anti-establishment, especially the financial services establishment”...
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Ruth’s view on bridging loans
FT Adviser Research commissioned by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, found 52 per cent of borrowers used a mortgage or remortgage...
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Ruth urges gender pay gap transparency in all firms
FT Adviser. The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is encouraging firms in the insurance and financial advice sectors to start disclosing their...
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Ruth on the value of mortgage brokers
FT Adviser. The gap between mortgage affordability for men and women is at its smallest since the financial crisis, figures...
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Ruth on mortgage affordability gap between the sexes
FT Adviser. The gap between mortgage affordability for men and women is at its smallest since the financial crisis, figures...
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Ruth on the ‘buy-to-let mis-selling scandal’
BT Lifestyle. As buy-to-let rules get tighter, landlords have been forming limited companies to try to cut tax bills. But...
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Ways to open up the residential market
FT Adviser. A property investment fund has called on the next government to exempt buyers of new build properties from...
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Ruth says the FCA should help the financially excluded more
FT Adviser. House of Lords committee has proposed that the remit of the Financial Conduct Authority be broadened to give...
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Non-discriminatory IFAs are more successful says Ruth
FT Adviser. IFA firms that pursue a positive non-discriminatory attitude to gay and female clients have a better chance of...
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Concerns that critical illness software risks quality for speed
FT Adviser. CI Expert will roll-out its rapid analysis critical illness cover tool with L&C Mortgages, but concerns have been...
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Ruth urges more pension equality for women
FT Adviser. Nearly 47,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition calling for fair transitional arrangements for women born on or...
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Ruth on chronic under-funding in the NHS
FT Adviser. Chronic under-funding and the national living wage will cause a loss of 37,000 beds in Britain’s care homes...
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Ruth on the record number of working women aged 50-64
FT Adviser Older women are more likely to be in employment than at any time in the past 30 years,...
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IP and CI non-existent for HIV-positive people
FT Adviser. Insurance provision for people living with HIV remains limited, Chris Morgan, lead adviser at Unusual Risks Mortgage &...
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