Our regulator is ‘independently funded’ by the fees we advisers pay them to regulate us. They reckon Brexit will cost them £30m next year and they expect ‘to be working on Brexit for many years’. Good news is that we advisers only have to cover a bit of the £30m as our fees are only going up 4.1%. So that’s good, isn’t it. Another glass-half-full, Brexit-positive.
“Why you should never retire”
On my 50th birthday, I will always remember, amongst the card or two I received was a letter from Saga’ who’d managed to find out my age through the wonder of the internet, and were pleased to tell me I now qualified to join my parents and go on holiday with them.