The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) plans to launch a simplified advice regime was broadly welcomed by advisers as well intentioned, but some have pointed to its practical challenges.
Rishi Sunak, who became the UK’s third prime minister in two months after officially taking over from Liz Truss on Tuesday (25 October), is facing tough decisions over a range of tax and pensions issues.
There are significantly more vulnerable adults across the UK than there were before the Covid-19 pandemic, Julia Bahr finds. Advisers are hopeful Consumer Duty will make it easier to help them
Market volatility has been an unrelenting feature of 2022 and while corrections are inevitable, Julia Bahr finds it makes investors edgy and uncertain.
In his first Mini Budget speech, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled a package of tax cuts, including a cut of the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19% from April 2023, a year earlier than planned, and scrapping the 45% top rate. Here Julia Bahr gauges industry reaction.
Locking in good credit lines, reducing unnecessary overheads, and considering whether new clients can be taken on are among the measures suggested by advisers to keep firms above water as the energy crisis worsens.
Locking in good credit lines, reducing unnecessary overheads, and considering whether new clients can be taken on are among the measures suggested by advisers to keep firms above water as the energy crisis worsens.