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  On Wednesday last week Phil was invited to present at St Phillips Chambers in Birmingham to over 65 delegates from the Legal sector, consisting mainly of Solicitors and Barristers, on Pensions & Divorce. Phil’s agenda consisted of the following; 3 Main Options on Divorce Pros and Cons of Each Sharing Final Salary Schemes [...]

  Jenny joined MPA in July 2016 with little experience in the Financial Services Industry and took the decision to commence her apprenticeship with FWD Training & Consultancy Limited, in conjunction with the CII, through MPA in May 2017. The apprenticeship saw Jenny not only completing her exams, but she also had to provide [...]

  11 June 2019   Letter to investors in LF Woodford Equity Income Fund   You will have no doubt read about the suspension of investor trading in LF Woodford Equity Income Fund last week. I realise this will be concerning and frustrating to you and I am sorry for putting you in this [...]

Eddies operation took place Wednesday last week and the surgeons have confirmed that it was successful!!…with the road to recovery being discussed over the next few days. Having spent over a week lying down, with part of the week seeing him unable to move at all as part of the recovery following his operation, [...]

  MPA Charitable Foundation were approached by The Warwickshire Wheelchair Basketball Academy in March this year for support with their project for people with disabilities in Henley-in-Arden and surrounding areas. What they told us; “Over the last few years our charity has significantly grown and developed the work we deliver.  This growth has occurred [...]

Star fund manager Neil Woodford has been forced to suspend trading in his flagship Woodford Equity Income Fund for the time being. The reasoning they have given is that due to redemptions of £9M per day in the last couple of weeks they are trying to protect existing shareholders from further losses. This means [...]

The MPA Charitable Foundation were first introduced to the Sutton Coldfield Special Olympics back in January 2019. Falling under the umbrella of the Special Olympics Great Britain, the Sutton Coldfield Special Olympics has been in existence for over 25 years, growing from strength to strength. The aim of the special Olympics is to bring [...]

In April 2019 the Personal Finance Society (PFS) launched a “Pension Transfer Gold Standard” which is ultimately a code of good practise for safeguarded and defined benefit pension transfer advice. The PFS is the professional body for the financial advisory profession in the UK, whose role is to promote ethical behaviour, the highest standards [...]

Eddie and his family would like to thank everyone for their kind words and messages of good will over the past few weeks. For anyone that isn't fully aware of the circumstances, Eddie Ball had a severe bleed on the brain from an aneurysm on Sunday 12th May 2019 and has since been in [...]