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Institute of Financial Services - News, education and career development for professionals. Corporate and member services.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountant's - Containing information qualifications, databases and resources and a range of online services.
AAT - The Association of Accounting Technician's web site with information about the Association, benefits of membership, and student information.
Society of Financial Advisers - Searchable directory of financial advisers. Information and resources for consumers, professional advisers and SOFA members.
ICAS - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland provides a variety of services for both its members and their clients.
Fund Managers' Association - Represents the interests of UK based institutional fund managers.
British Insurance Brokers' Association - UK trade association in the insurance broking sector.
The Chartered Insurance Institute - Professional and educational organisation in the global insurance and financial services industry.
General Insurance Standards Council - The watchdog established to set, monitor and enforce standards in all areas of general insurance, including the fair treatment of customers.
IMRO - The Investment Management Regulatory Organisation regulates, monitors and enforces operating, ethical and competence standards to the UK financial services community.
ATT - The website of the Association of Taxation Technicians. Providing guidance and help on UK tax matters.
Institute of Financial Planning - Professional body of financial planners, those who help individuals and businesses organise their financial affairs so as to achieve specific objectives.
British Bankers Association - Principal representative body for banks active in the UK, with over 300 member banks from more than 60 countries.
Chartered Institute of Taxation - Essential reading for the general public and tax professionals.
TaxAid - A charity offering up-to-date information and advice on tax matters to individuals on low and modest incomes.
Life Insurance Association - Representative organisation for financial advisers.
Financial Services Compensation Scheme - A financial compensation scheme in the event of the failure of authorised firms. Covers insurance companies, deposit-takers and investment firms.
Financial Services Consumer Panel - An independent voice for consumers of financial services in the UK.
National Association of Student Money Advisors - Event, links, member's area and directory.
Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers - Directory of investment managers and stock brokers.
Council of Mortgage Lenders - Trade association for mortgage lenders. Includes statistics and relevant publications.
Mortgage Code Compliance Board - Non-statutory regulator of mortgage providers. With help and advice for consumers, publications and best practice for member firms and list of registered firms.
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(Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Organisations Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Organisations If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Organisations It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... 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(Gilbert Keith Chesterton) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Organisations I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Organisations "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Organisations What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Organisations Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Organisations God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Organisations "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Organisations "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. 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