Is it just me, or is this complete marketing twoddle? The reason less women take financial advice could be that a) 90% of advisers (my estimate from many years of attending adviser events) are male and, b) without unduly disrespecting my colleagues’ or overestimating my own powers of communication, the proportion who can communicate effectively with the opposite sex is representative of a) the rest of the male population and b) the number of marriages which end in divorce. We need more lady advisers just as much as we need more advisers under the age of 50. And the two needs are not mutually exclusive.
“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”
Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.