A friend who surprised me by voting leave in 2016 said he ‘thought it would be nice to have a change’. Well, he and many others who thought the same (and there were many others who gave it as little thought as that) could really have a change, nice or otherwise, if they vote, for instance, Labour or Green. And arguably a more positive one than Brexiting; but what are the chances?
“Record year for annuity sales driven by advisers”
I was asked this week whether annuities are now ‘a good investment’. They’ve been recommended very rarely in recent years, since ‘pension freedoms’ allowed pretty much unlimited drawdown on pension funds and anything left to be passed on to beneficiaries free of Inheritance Tax.