MPA shows it’s an all-round good sport with a raft of donations
Through MPA’s Charitable Foundation, we have recently had the pleasure of supporting a range of talented sportspeople and community initiatives with donations totalling nearly £3,000. Sending Leo Ward to the Junior World Series Earlswood cricketer, Leo Ward, has been selected to play for England under 17s in the Junior World Series 2023 cricket tournament [...]
Happy Retirement, Sue!
As many of our clients may already be aware, IFA Sue Houldsworth has taken the decision to retire and call time on her successful career within financial services. She will be missed by us all at MPA, but we wish her nothing but happiness and she embarks on the next stage in her life. [...]
May 2023 Market Summary
Whilst the start of the year had brought positivity to markets with evidence that inflation had peaked in many major economies, bringing greater expectations that Central Banks would begin to slow down their interest rate rises, recent weeks have seen inflation remain stubbornly high, especially in the UK. This has led to interest rate [...]
MPA Enhances Security When Communicating with Clients
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 [...]
What’s Going on with Interest Rates?
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 [...]
Changes to the Pension Lifetime Allowance
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 [...]
PruFund Update
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 [...]
MPA Celebrates Exam Success
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 [...]
MPA Goes back to School
‘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 [...]