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Sarah Marrett, our Human Resources Consultant , has provided us with some information below, which some people may find useful. The information provided is designed to provide signposting for employees to help them manage their own finances during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK Government has announced a package of benefits in recent weeks. Employees [...]

Yesterday saw the worst death toll in the UK with 87 confirmed dead by Coronavirus and the first day of lockdown. We have closed the office except for post opening and scanning. As I said yesterday, the phones and emails will be answered remotely by the staff at MPA who have all been fantastic! [...]

Im sure you all saw last night that Boris Johnson has ordered all non essential shops and offices to close to ensure that we all self isolate and slow the spread of disease. In light of this we will also be closing the office from today. I bought more laptops yesterday so all the [...]

On Friday Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor announced a huge range of financial packages to help businesses large and small and employees in what is now termed a war footing against this hideous disease. He has promised to protect employees wages for 80%, up to a maximum of £2500 per month to stop companies laying [...]

Yesterday we had Boris announcing more and more measures, both monetary and practical. They have said they will do whatever it takes. Markets were positive yesterday and up as I write today. (9.21am) I hear Martin Lewis was offering practical advice on TV last night when worried investors were writing in saying they had [...]

We are living in strange times. People fighting over toilet roll and rice in supermarkets, retail staff being abused when they are just trying to do their job and peoples lifetime investments taking a pounding in the markets. Our job at MPA has been to try and alleviate worries clients have and come up [...]

Property Funds Close In times of strife commercial bricks and mortar property funds are not the place to be. Yesterday all the funds that were still open closed their doors to investors selling their holdings. According to the press this was down to staff not being able to value the properties regularly, but its [...]

I had a meeting with a client last week who commented that the PruFund ‘defies gravity’. I explained it doesn’t, but so far it hadn’t been affected by the huge losses on the stockmarkets. I also explained that this is not sustainable but lets wait and see. Well, last night we had our answer [...]

Last night the UK Government upped its action against Coronovirus by recommending not going on non essential flights, not going out to pubs and restaurants and self isolating if you are over 70, among many other things. The EU countries in the Schengen area are closing down their borders and we are in very [...]