I was a bit disappointed that Gary Lineker didn't feature at all in today's Budget, but his name did make an appearance in Prime Minister's Questions which preceded it, so that will have to do. We were expecting (hoping) for a "boring Budget" (Jeremy Hunt's words, not ours). And in many ways it was. However, there were some big, unexpected changes to pension rules, so much...
Read More
So while robo-advisers have been around for a while (and, to coin the late, great Ian Taylor, "involve neither robots nor advice"), the more traditional world of real-people financial advice has been making the news recently. First, Vanguard announced that is closing its less-than-two-years-old financial advisory service. It seems their low-cost, low-frills service wasn't generating much traction in the UK - even at an attractive 0.50%...
Read More