“Quilter finds its clients prefer face-to-face advice”

May 4, 2021 | Companies

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

The interesting thing about this survey is not that 53% prefer face-to-face advice. It’s that as many as 47% say they actually prefer not to see their Quilter advisers, or at least to only see them on a screen. What would the same crowd have said a year ago? I’d guess they’d probably have thought the same, but their only experience of an online meeting was a dodgy Skype call or trying to get through to their bank’s call centre. And most would have thought Zoom was a type of ice lolly.

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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.