“FCA to temporarily ban promotion of speculative mini-bonds”

Nov 26, 2019 | Financial Services

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

When the head of the FCA was interviewed about this, it was put to him that surely ‘the horse has not just bolted, but been round the track several times and settled back in the stable’. I’m not sure what I’m missing here, but surely advertising anything unregulated and/or dodgy should be banned;  and regulated advisers (those, like us, who are FCA approved) should not be allowed to recommend unregulated investments, whether ‘mini-bonds’ (I’m not sure, either) or holiday homes in Timbuktu. End of. 

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“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.