Financial Advice Blog

As we embark on a new year, although it’s likely to be overshadowed by uncertainty surrounding Brexit, it’s important to keep your personal financial goals in mind and ensure you continue to plan for the future. Revisit your investment goals It makes sense to take...

Our monthly economic review is intended to provide background to recent developments in investment markets as well as to give an indication of how some key issues could impact in the future. It is not intended that individual investment decisions should be taken based...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond stood up in Parliament at 12.43pm on Wednesday, 13 March, to deliver his second Spring Statement at an inauspicious time following the House of Commons’ dramatic rejection of the Government’s Brexit deal the previous evening....

The latest set of employment statistics shows that the UK labour market remains in a robust state and that the recent recovery in real pay growth is gathering momentum.  According to data from the Labour Force Survey, the number of people in work rose to a record high...

A new law has come into force which makes it illegal for companies to cold call about pensions. The ban on unwanted, unsolicited phone calls to people about their pensions follows an industry campaign to make the practice illegal. Companies breaking the new law could...

Defending your savings in retirement Danny Knight, head of investment directors at Quilter Investors, explains why adopting the same investment strategy in retirement as you did in accumulation can cause irreparable damage to your pension pot. Many people spend their...