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Although current pot-for-life proposals have been positioned as increasing member choice, I think they will have the opposite effect.

Let’s stop pretending the outright abolition of IHT is anything other than a goodbye present from an administration which knows it is done for and wants to make one last payout to those who least deserve it.

Setting our standards by looking at what others are doing does not always produce the best outcomes. This is like that toddler learning how to walk by copying the family dog.

We hear about the things we should be doing as we get older – taking advantage of free prescriptions, free sight tests, the free bus pass and so on. Something also ‘free’, but less prominent, are the NHS screening programmes.

My alarm goes off at… ...6am as this is the time my two-year-old wakes up, so we all get up to get ready for the day. Some days, if I’m travelling into London for client meetings, I set my alarm for 5am as I get the 6.31am train. So it’s all about planning the logistics at home in order to strike that balance of work

The FCA and Treasury deserve credit for tackling this difficult problem head-on and exploring solutions to both improve guidance and make advice more accessible. Crucially, unlike with Isa reform, they do not appear to be bound by political timescales and are focused on getting it right.

I read Mark Dampier’s recent opinion piece in Money Marketing regarding the difficulty in finding a good investment adviser and it again struck me that you cannot please everyone all of the time.

The responses we received to our latest Schroder Adviser Survey provide a degree of reassurance that the views of advisers and their clients are much as you might expect in many areas.

I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking about where now and next. So, what can we expect from 2024?