Just finished a lovely book, ‘The Music Shop’, by our friend Rachel Joyce. It’s all about the fall and rise of vinyl and the record shop and record shop owner. Which made me muse that, perhaps, we advisers are the independent, vinyl-stocking record shops of financial services.
They say that online ‘robo-advice’ will be the end of us. But maybe there will always be a demand for something with lots of notes to read that you can touch and feel and turn over. If you know what I mean.
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.
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.
lthough in theory the environment (pardon the) for sustainable/ethical/responsible funds improved significantly last year, the performance of many did not. Excluding oil/mining/guns/fags all hampered their performance in the aftermath of Ukraine.