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Chancellor’s £100mn apprenticeship scheme ‘aimed at the wrong problem’ ft.trib.al/KqVFo8w
Chancellor’s £100mn apprenticeship scheme ‘aimed at the wrong problem’

Chancellor’s £100mn apprenticeship scheme ‘aimed at the wrong problem’

The chancellor’s £100mn investment in a Local Apprenticeship Service has its “heart in the right place” but may be insufficient and poorly targeted, financial services experts have warned.

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Opinion: Budget had a key message of growth, even if the measures were limited ft.trib.al/UeyKwG4
Budget had a key message of growth, even if the measures were limited

Budget had a key message of growth, even if the measures were limited

With limited fiscal headroom and having inherited weighty manifesto promises, chancellor John Healey had limited room to manoeuvre in his first Budget.

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Dynamic Planner launches agentic upgrade to its platform ft.trib.al/RhkQg4A
Dynamic Planner launches agentic upgrade to its platform

Dynamic Planner launches agentic upgrade to its platform

Dynamic Planner has launched an agentic upgrade to help firms to serve more clients.

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VCT industry responds to ‘frustrating’ lack of change to scheme tax relief ft.trib.al/epoa28O
VCT industry responds to ‘frustrating’ lack of change to scheme tax relief

VCT industry responds to ‘frustrating’ lack of change to scheme tax relief

There was no sign of the government reversing changes to the income tax reliefs on Venture Capital Trusts in this week’s Budget.

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Why an adviser’s previous salary tells you less than you might think ft.trib.al/cT9tC9b

Why an adviser’s previous salary tells you less than you might think

Advice firms recruiting experienced advisers tend to look at years served, qualifications and current salary.

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How to hire decision makers ft.trib.al/YXBSiQE
How to hire decision makers

How to hire decision makers

During my career as an investment banker and later as the owner of a staffing platform, I have interviewed and hired many people.

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Opinion: Healey wants entrepreneurs to thrive. So why not restore the slashed tax reliefs? ft.trib.al/j5TTuvn
Healey wants entrepreneurs to thrive. So why not restore the slashed tax reliefs?

Healey wants entrepreneurs to thrive. So why not restore the slashed tax reliefs?

The government says it wants Britain to be the best place in the world to start, grow and keep a business. As someone who has built a business here, I would love that to be true. But I came away from...

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Opinion: No appetite for Budget boldness, but care is creeping back on the menu ft.trib.al/uDTC9pN
No appetite for Budget boldness, but care is creeping back on the menu

No appetite for Budget boldness, but care is creeping back on the menu

John Healey’s Budget was a “non-event”, a Budget intensely speculated upon, but eventually sparsely seasoned.

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Budget was ‘missed opportunity’ for insurance ft.trib.al/VVA7QnO
Budget was ‘missed opportunity’ for insurance

Budget was ‘missed opportunity’ for insurance

The Budget was a “missed opportunity” to boost families’ financial resilience by addressing the issue of protection, Samuel Mather-Holgate, managing director at Mather and Murray Financial has stated.

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Chancellor calls on BoE to improve access to home ownership ft.trib.al/M4mvpUp
Chancellor calls on BoE to improve access to home ownership

Chancellor calls on BoE to improve access to home ownership

The Financial Policy Committee should target improving access to home ownership, including reviewing the loan-to-income framework, the chancellor has said in a letter to the governor of the Bank of...

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First Eagle expands private credit offer for family offices ft.trib.al/lQvAerB
First Eagle expands private credit offer for family offices

First Eagle expands private credit offer for family offices

First Eagle Investments is expanding its international wealth business to attract family office capital into specialist private credit strategies.

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‘The industry is working to promote private markets investment’ ft.trib.al/xf0n6C2

‘The industry is working to promote private markets investment’

Investments in private markets through pensions is a way to “bring it to the masses”, according to Doug Brown, Aviva’s chief executive for insurance, wealth and retirement.

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Next leg of commodity stock returns could come from AI-related takeovers ft.trib.al/mNOK2qr
Next leg of commodity stock returns could come from AI-related takeovers

Next leg of commodity stock returns could come from AI-related takeovers

Such is the demand for commodities key to the AI build-out in the coming years that large hyperscalers in the US may begin to buy the mining companies with stocks of those minerals, according to...

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How advisers should engage with clients before and after wealth transfers ft.trib.al/6UtMa9u
How advisers should engage with clients before and after wealth transfers

How advisers should engage with clients before and after wealth transfers

Intergenerational planning goes beyond simply preparing wealth for the next generation to preparing them to manage said wealth while navigating different financial circumstances, conflict, expectat...

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Budget 2026: absence of sweeping reforms brings the ‘breathing space’ ft.trib.al/qQPSNRx
Budget 2026: absence of sweeping reforms brings the ‘breathing space’

Budget 2026: absence of sweeping reforms brings the ‘breathing space’

Sometimes the most welcome Budget announcement is the one that never comes.

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10 devilish details you may have missed in John Healey’s first Budget ft.trib.al/QUw34oZ
10 devilish details you may have missed in John Healey’s first Budget

10 devilish details you may have missed in John Healey’s first Budget

FT Adviser received more than 500 emails about the Budget yesterday (October 28) and more will be coming today, which means people are doing the same as we did yesterday: print the documents out and...

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SJP records ‘record’ £242bn in funds under management ft.trib.al/wXRoEqk
SJP records ‘record’ £242bn in funds under management

SJP records ‘record’ £242bn in funds under management

St James’s Place has reported £5.2bn in gross inflows during the third quarter of the year, a trading update for the company has revealed.

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Self assessment taxpayers face double bill in 2030 ft.trib.al/phfhFiR
Self assessment taxpayers face double bill in 2030

Self assessment taxpayers face double bill in 2030

Changes to the way self assessment taxpayers meet their obligations to HMRC in 2029 will result in individuals paying two years’ worth of tax in one year, the latest Office for Budget Responsibility...

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Opinion: Budget 2026: breathing space but still a financial jungle ft.trib.al/rKzoAOU
Budget 2026: breathing space but still a financial jungle

Budget 2026: breathing space but still a financial jungle

A Budget is an exercise in changing incentives. Financial wellbeing depends on changing behaviour. And the two aren’t always the same thing.

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FTSE 100 opens up in response to Budget ft.trib.al/EeOWZD6
FTSE 100 opens up in response to Budget

FTSE 100 opens up in response to Budget

UK stocks rose on Thursday morning (October 29) in the first market open since John Healey’s first Budget.

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