Social media can be a curse as well as a blessing, as people are now realising.
I was saddened this week, as I’m sure many of you were, to learn of the untimely death of veteran Financial Planner Carolyn Gowen at the relatively young age of 58, just a few months after she retired.
Confidence in politicians has taken a knock lately. Perhaps they would welcome the chance now to redeem their reputation and demonstrate they can be trusted to uphold important promises made to their constituents.
I am not surprised by the findings of a new survey which suggests that the over-50s are cold-shouldering robo advice.
I suspect more than a few lovers of red wine, myself included, winced when we heard the Chancellor planned to add the best part of 50p to a bottle.
Quietly and gradually the FCA is changing and not before time.
The FCA has quietly signalled the end to its Covid-friendly policies of patience, extended deadlines and generally a lighter touch.
The money laundering regulations are supposed to be a dull but routine part of financial services business, as any Financial Planner will attest.
The unexpected resignation today of under fire CII CEO Sian Fisher is neither the end of the story for the Personal Finance Society, nor realistically even a solution to the crisis that has beset both the CII and PFS in recent times.
No day is ever the same - our clients are different; their needs and goals are different; their circumstances are different and often subject to change with little or no warning.
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The fall in life expectancy for men, revealed this week by ONS, was perhaps not such a big surprise given that more than 130,000 people have sadly lost their lives to Covid-19 over the past 18 months.
The next generation of Financial Planners is at last coming from a wider range of backgrounds, including graduate entry and that, mostly, is a very good thing.
I have to confess to being in two minds about the key announcement from the Government this week about the rise in National Insurance and dividend taxation, ostensibly to pay for social care.
Trust is a critical concept in what we do as Financial Planners but is often hard to define.