“Standard Life Aberdeen changes name to ‘Abrdn'”

Apr 26, 2021 | Companies

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

You kind of hope that the chief exec came up with this, having heard his two year-old mispronounce where daddy works. The reality, I’m sure, is that several agencies pitched, the winner had several meetings with the board, marketing and sales management, then arranged focus groups of various demographics before the new corporate image was presented to the board, who by then had spent so much on it that there was no turning back. Nice work if you can get it.

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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.