Did your financial habits change because of 2016?
2016. The year a year became a real life, living, breathing entity. If posts on Twitter were any reflection of...
Weekly Round-Up – Friday 20th January 2017
Happy Friday, readers! It’s time to catch up. Here are some of the things that we covered at Informed Choice...
Financial Services Compensation Scheme extends levies
One of the costs we face as a regulated business is funding the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). This compensation...
Applying the 10th man doctrine to your Financial Planning
I’m a sucker for a good zombie movie. George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead tops the list for...
Weekly Round-Up – Friday 6th January 2017
Happy New Year! We hope you had a good break over Christmas and have set some meaningful resolutions for the...
Social care crisis in Surrey
There is a crisis in adult social care, with local authorities struggling to fund care as our population ages. According...
Winchester is the best place to live
I spent one of the best years of my life living in the City of Winchester. After giving up on...
Robo-advice is failing investors
Robo-advice. Possibly the least accurate title the world of financial services has created in recent memory. After all, there are...
Being forced to retire early
“I don’t need a plan for retirement, I’m just going to keep on working.” That’s the extent of a ‘retirement...
Renzi resigns after losing constitutional referendum
2016 has been a year of unexpected political results, with Brexit and Donald Trump dominating not only headlines but investor...