“Let little boys wear tiaras: Church of England issues new advice”

Nov 16, 2017 | In the news

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

This has nothing to do with financial advice, but a lot to do with life and parenting. If you have children, you’ll know that they don’t give a stuff about this stuff and actually don’t find (in the words of Blur, of whom they probably won’t have heard) ’girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls’ a problem at all; which I think is a sign of both the bravest of brave new worlds and of how far we’ve come in just my generation. Rock on, C of E.

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“Cash ISA allowance could be cut this month”

“Cash ISA allowance could be cut this month”

Our mantra has long been ’straightforward advice that you can understand’. That can mean trying to simplify the many complex products and options with which the world of finance tries to befuddle its target audience.

“Will the Bank of England Cut UK Interest Rates Again in 2025?”

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It’s easy to forget that five years ago the Bank of England Base Rate was at an all-time low of 0.1%, and only rose above 1% with the arrival of Liz Truss later in 2022. Something of which we often have to remind those who, when looking at how their investments have fared over the same period after yet another Trump Tweet has pushed markets in one direction or another, tell us ‘we could have been getting 4% a year if we’d left it all in the bank’.