Julia Bahr looks at the return of annuities, the ‘one and done’ option for retirement income. Could drawdown, and therefore, the need for ongoing retirement income advice be on the wane?
Britons had to sacrifice seeing loved ones over the holiday period in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid pandemic - but now face having to do the same due to union barons shutting down critical services.
There are significantly more vulnerable adults across the UK than there were before the Covid-19 pandemic, Julia Bahr finds. Advisers are hopeful Consumer Duty will make it easier to help them
Market volatility has been an unrelenting feature of 2022 and while corrections are inevitable, Julia Bahr finds it makes investors edgy and uncertain.