PEOPLE MOVES: abrdn, Pimfa, Rathbones AM, Axa IM, Neuberger Berman, Jupiter
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Seven Investment Management’s Justin Urquhart-Stewart is on a personal crusade to promote financial literacy. He sees parallels between financial professionals use of jargon and the perception in schools that maths is hard. He argues they fuel an unjustified mystique around aspects of financial planning, which is driving clients away. Here are his four bugbears:
Xavier Meyer comes in
Group will launch £4.5m in cost-saving measures over the coming months
The reluctance of platforms to allow for fractional trading means the inclusion of ETFs and investment trusts within MPS is being constrained
Record annual IHT take last tax year of £7.5bn likely to be beaten
Securing an income is no-longer purely a mathematical calculation, writes Oxford Risk’s Greg B Davies
Fund has split its fixed income exposure into four, rather than using a single broad index