Don't know much about Cornmarket. Safest to avoid product selling financial "advisers" and brokers who are driven by commisson and talk to a genuinely fee based authorised advisor (see below). Many authorised advisors talk the talk re not taking commissions but do in fact take commissions.
Be sure and diversify into a range of assets - including corporate and government bonds (short dated as public debt is exploding and long dated bonds will get murdered), gold bullion, international equities, property reits and cash.
Do not put all your eggs into any product or with any one life assurance company or bank. Do not put all your eggs in any one basket.
List of authorised advisors (some fee based - most not) is here [broken link removed]
Good luck in the shark infested waters.
DIVERSIFY
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Congratulations to Ask About Money on the 10 years.
Have enjoyed my financial/ investment debates on here. Confident that there will be more informed discussion about gold (the finite currency and safest form of money in the world) and less anti gold bias on Ask About Money's in the next 10 years.
Happy Birthday Ask About Money!
Well done Brendan - quite an achievement.