MPA Teams up with Coolsportz for Playmaker Award Sponsorship
MPA is proud to have supported the next generation of leaders by sponsoring coaching specialists Coolsportz to deliver the Playmaker Award through its MPA Charitable Foundation. Based in South Warwickshire and established by Neil Supperstone, Coolsportz is a dynamic coaching company offering a wide range of sports and holiday clubs at venues across the [...]
MPA in the Press – Jenny Hall Discusses ESG with CityWire
Sustainable investing is something we are increasingly asked about by our clients. Whilst everybody's main goal will usually be to make a profit or sustain an income, most clients are happy to include ESG (environmental, social and governance) investments as a secondary objective. Whilst currently just over 5% of our clients' assets are invested [...]
Spring Budget 2023 – Jeremy Hunt removes LTAs
On Wednesday 15 March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered the Government’s 2023 Spring Budget. Having been forced to intervene with a series of economic measures designed to stabilise the economy following the turbulence of the Mini Budget in September 2022, the Chancellor announced that this budget was one focussed on Growth. Encouragingly, there were positive [...]
PruFund Update…
At the latest quarterly review of the PruFund range of smoothed investments, the PruFund Growth Fund has applied a downward Unit Price Adjustment (UPA) of-2.63%. This affects investments in some pension products, (Series A Trustee Investment Plan) ISAs and offshore bonds (Series B). All other versions of PruFund such as Cautious or investments in [...]
What does life as a Paraplanner look like at MPA?
Paraplanners are an integral part of any financial planning team and that is certainly the case here at MPA. Our talented Paraplanners support our advisers in providing the best investment information to clients. We spoke to MPA’s Head of Paraplanning, Jenny Nicholls, about why organisational skills and focus are key to the role, career [...]
MPA Secures Chartered Status
We are delighted to announce that we have once again achieved Chartered Status from the premier professional body for the insurance and financial planning professions. Following an in-depth assessment of our professional practice and customer service, we have been awarded the landmark ‘Chartered Financial Planners’ title by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) for the [...]
Preparing For Tax Year End 2022-23
Last year we provided a “5 Easy Ways to Make Your Tax Year End a Success” article aimed at providing a simple, thought-provoking guide to maximising your tax year end allowances, ensuring that you mad the most of your finances. Following the numerous fiscal changes announced by Jeremy Hunt in the Autumn Budget, acting [...]
MPA Supports Equality Within Cricket with SACA Sponsorship
MPA is proud to be among other organisations including Birmingham City University, Warwickshire Cricket Board and coaching consultants, Pearn Kandola, sponsoring innovative cricket initiative, SACA. The South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) is an intervention programme designed to tackle the inequalities highlighted by research regarding the lack of British South Asian (BSA) representation in professional [...]
Abrdn Platform Maintenance Postponed…
We have today been made aware that the scheduled essential maintenance due on the Abrdn platform between Thursday 26th January 2023 until Wednesday 1st February 2023 has been postponed . As a result, the Abrdn platform will continue to be available to all clients and MPA staff, with the message being "business as usual". [...]