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We are pleased to announce an important update regarding the security of our communication channels. Email cybercrime is an ever-growing risk to people and businesses. As a Company, we have taken the decision to enhance the security around email communication to our clients, specifically those emails that contain personal and sensitive data, to ensure [...]

We are all affected by interest rates, be it bank deposit rates, mortgage rates and gilt yields, in different ways. Rising bank interest rates are good for savers but poor for mortgage holders who are not on a fixed rate. Rising gilt yields are good for annuity purchase but poor for investors. Here, our [...]

At the Spring Budget in March 2023, The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that he was going to abolish the Pension Lifetime Allowance. Rather than increase the threshold, as many had predicted he would, the Chancellor removed the cap completely. The change came into effect in April 2023. Victoria Jones/PA Wire In a [...]

At its recent quarterly update on its PruFund range, Prudential has adjusted its Unit Price. The fund is our largest holding for clients and on our Best Buy List, so here, our MD Phil McGovern provides an update on what this means for PruFund investors. Prudential have had their quarterly update on the PruFund [...]

We are pleased to announce that one of our team have successfully taken their next steps on the road to becoming Chartered Financial Planners, having passed their latest CII exams. Timon White, Trainee Financial Adviser, has successfully passed his CII RO3 Personal Taxation exam. This module develops knowledge and understanding of the UK taxation [...]

‘Inform, Educate and Inspire’ is a core part of our ethos at MPA. Over last few years, David McGovern has certainly been delivering on the ‘Educate’ part through an initiative set up by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). The CII has established the ‘My Personal Finance Skills’ programme, a pro bono initiative that delivers [...]

In a slight change from our 'Adviser Insights' series of website stories, we are now shining a light on other team members who are essential to the successful running of MPA. In our first 'Admin Insights' we spoke to MPA Administrator Kat about switching careers, the perks of constantly learning on the job and [...]

We are pleased to announce that we are once again showing our support for Warwickshire County Cricket Club by sponsoring its Captain Will Rhodes. MPA will be Will Rhodes’ bat sponsor for the 2023 season, and we hope having our logo on his bat will spur him on to hit plenty of boundaries. Our [...]

The start of the year brought positivity to markets, with emerging evidence that inflation had peaked in many major economies, bringing greater expectations that central banks would begin to slow down their interest rate hiking programmes. The end of the quarter saw focus turn to the banking sector. Fragility spread first from the US, [...]