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Nov 1, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Dan Cooper |Phil Wickenden |Momodou Musa Touray |Salome Asabre
I can scarcely believe it has been a whole year since I joined the brilliant team at Money Marketing. The past 12 months have absolutely flown by – and looking back it’s not hard to see why. Sometimes you get so caught up in the day-to-day tasks that you forget to take a breath, sit down and reflect on the things that have happened.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | John Husselbee |Phil Wickenden
The Treasury has said it will leave the annual subscription limit for Individual Savings Accounts (Isas) at £20,000. This is despite its plan to scrap the UK Isa. In a document published today (30 October), after Rachel Reeves’ first Budget as chancellor, the government said it will not proceed with the UK Isa due to mixed responses to the consultation launched in March 2024. The UK Isa was announced in former Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget in March.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Dan Cooper |Rachel Vahey |Phil Wickenden |Momodou Musa Touray
Good morning and welcome to your Morning Briefing for Wednesday 30 October 2024. To get this in your inbox every morning click here. Minimum wage rises by 6.7%Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a 6.7% increase in the minimum wage, boosting pay for over a million low-income workers. This above-inflation rise will take the minimum wage, or ‘National Living Wage’ for over-21s, from the current £11.44 to between £12.12 and £12.20, starting next year.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Phil Wickenden |Phil Jeynes |Chris Davies
Rumours are rife of potential changes to the tax-privileged status of pension schemes as part of the Budget and its objective of filling some of the alleged £22bn black hole in public finances. I have no idea whether these rumours have substance but I do have concerns over any changes to pensions tax, tax relief and related legislation relief.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Sam Sloma |Phil Wickenden |Salome Asabre
Financial planners need to get better at articulating their value to clients, Attivo regional director Louise Barraclough has insisted. At Money Marketing Interactive in Leeds today (24 October), she said advisers should think about where the value of their advice is for clients. “As planners, we absolutely need to believe our value,” she said, suggesting this is the “biggest thing that in this profession we lack”. “It’s not just enough to believe value,” she added.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Dan Cooper |Phil Wickenden |Sam Sloma
Industry experts have urged the government to “keep up the momentum” after it gave an update on the Pensions Dashboard Programme today (22 October). Pensions minister Emma Reynolds announced that the MoneyHelper Pension Dashboard service will be made available before commercial dashboards. Reynolds added that it is too early to confirm a launch date to the public.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Phil Wickenden
Awareness around neurodiversity is improving, but the narrative of it as an obstacle to success, rather than a driver of it, needs to change. Recent research by Barclays revealed a shocking 96% of neurodiverse business founders said they face discrimination due to their neurodiversity, with almost half reporting experiencing it either ‘regularly’ or ‘always’. Moreover, 78% said they have felt compelled to actively hide their neurodivergence in business settings.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Ian McKenna |ian mckenna |Phil Wickenden
Artemis founder John Dodd has announced he will retire from his role as executive chair at the end of 2024, after almost 40 years in the industry. His responsibilities will be shared among the current senior team. Senior partner Mark Murray said: “John was one of the founders of Artemis in 1997 and has played a huge part in the growth and success of the firm over the past 27 years. “He has been a key figure in helping shape the Artemis business, which today has assets under management of £25bn.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | David Ferguson |Phil Wickenden
Perspective Financial Group has completed two further acquisitions, bringing its total to 11 this year and 89 since it was founded 16 years ago. The latest two transactions add approximately £185m in assets under advice, 530 households as clients and a further office near Sheffield. This brings its total number of offices to 39. The first acquisition is of Whittington Goddard Associates in Dore, near Sheffield. The firm was founded in 2003.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
moneymarketing.co.uk | Tom Browne |Phil Wickenden |Ian McKenna |ian mckenna |Nick Henshaw
Of the many reactions that greeted the reunion of Britpop legends Oasis, my favourite was from the music writer Andrew Mueller on X:“Commissioning editors/producers: I was a rock journalist in the mid-90s, and while I have no opinion either way about the reunion, I am – and I cannot over-emphasise this – prepared to pretend I do for money.”If only everyone had Mueller’s candour.
