The platform paraplanner room

Welcome to our space dedicated
totally to paraplanners!

Welcome to our space dedicated totally to paraplanners!

Here, you’ll find insights, news and information designed specifically for paraplanners, as well as tools to help you deliver the best results for your business.

Scottish Widows is delighted to support the paraplanning community by sponsoring the Paraplanners’ Assembly. Find out more about the Paraplanners’ Assembly here.

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Paraplanners Assembly logo

Useful tools

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Red Scottish Widows control icon with illustrations of a cog and person
Support hub

Support hub for help and guidance.

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Recommendation tool

Useful suitability paragraphs for your client reports.

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Due diligence

Due Diligence guides and key documents.

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Red Scottish Widows calculator icon
Calculator

Annual allowance and carry forward calculator.

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Taking stock of a shifting
wealth landscape

As paraplanners, staying ahead of legislative and policy changes is essential – not just to support advisers, but to ensure clients’ plans remain robust and responsive. With a new government in place and sweeping reforms already underway, this article explores the key developments shaping financial planning conversations today and in the years ahead.
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Avoiding the ‘pink pound’
blind spot

Recognising the unique financial challenges faced by LGBTQ+ clients is essential to building inclusive, effective financial plans. This article explores the often-overlooked vulnerabilities within the community – and how advisers with the help of paraplanners, with the right insight and support, can help close the advice and protection gap.
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The reality of retirement

For paraplanners, understanding the gap between retirement expectations and financial reality is key to building resilient, client-focused plans. This article explores how lifestyle aspirations, rising costs, and unexpected spending patterns are reshaping retirement – and why careful, flexible planning is more important than ever.
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Paraplanner survey

The Paraplanner Survey is an annual temperature check on the health of the paraplanning profession and an insight into the increasingly crucial role that paraplanners play within the advice value chain. We surveyed 200 paraplanners asking What do paraplanners really think about AI?And what do they feel are the biggest myths about paraplanning?

Webinar guides for paraplanners

Jon Hall, Protection Specialist at Scottish Widows, explains why protection deserves a place in holistic financial planning, current market trends, practical tools and technology to help you research and recommend solutions. Watch the webinar now. Alternatively, listen to the podcast version.
Jon Hall, Protection Specialist at Scottish Widows, returns to explain why business protection is essential to ensure clients’ businesses can continue to operate smoothly if the worst happens. Watch the webinar now. Alternatively, listen to the podcast version.
Susan Hope, Business Development Director at Scottish Widows explores the critical moments in a woman’s financial journey and the alarming 30% gender pension gap. Susan and Sam Secomb from Women’s Wealth discuss how paraplanners can help create a better outcome for their female clients. Listen to the podcast version.

Her Wealth Network

Her Wealth Network is a professional networking group, supported by Scottish Widows, empowering women to achieve success by facilitating relationships and discussing topics that improve career opportunities for its members with an aim to optimise the gender balance across the industry.