Financial Planning is not a solution to climate change nor world hunger but it is, on balance, a pretty good thing.

It is no surprise that the pandemic has nudged, encouraged and, to be fair, forced quite a few people to rethink their retirement plans.

FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi will have given recent critics of the regulator much of what they have demanded in his high profile Business Plan launched this week to much coverage.

As we reported last week, the CII’s recent crunch AGM saw a setback for rebels fighting against the deregistration of the Personal Finance Society.