KNFP News

Winter Edition 2025

Summary:

  • Preparing for the longevity megatrend in an uncertain world
  • Taking steps to avoid a retirement overspend
  • 17 out of 21 sectors raised dividend payments in Q3
  • Family tensions over money talks – time to break the taboo
  • Dive into ’25 on top of key tax changes
  • End of tax year IHT recap – gen up on gifting allowances
  • Pension pulse – a reminder for ‘25
  • The changing face of retirement – as the traditional ‘hard-stop’ is consigned to history

Summer Edition 2024

Summary:

  • Financial well being has many facets
  • Your bonus, your pension?
  • Are you a magpie investor?
  • Your pension and the next generation
  • Brighter outlook for global economy as inflation eases
  • Don’t score an own goal: check your pension is protected
  • What you need to know about behavioural investment
  • Divorces held back by financial consideration

Spring Edition 2024

Summary:

  • What could this election year have in store for investors?
  • Investor confidence returns
  • A plan to grow the economy
  • IHT receipts at record levels
  • Reaching self-actualisation in retirement
  • Where next for the global economy?

Winter Edition 2024

Summary:

  • Preparing portfolios for resilience in 2024
  • Global dividends – encouraging growth?
  • Who wants to be an (ISA) millionaire?
  • More people choose living inheritances
  • One million more over-65s still at work
  • ‘110 measures’ to grow the economy
  • The financial pitfalls that primarily affect women
  • Powering up your pension
  • Living the retirement dream
  • Financial advice: much more than the bottom line

Autumn Edition 2023

Summary:

  • Lifetime allowance removal provides pension boost
  • Megatrends are defining the future
  • overcome the complexities of succession planning
  • More pension savers want to exclude oil
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be regulated
  • Dividend Allowance cuts: implications for investors
  • Understanding your behavioral biases
  • Spot the dog fund

Summer Edition 2023

Summary:

  • Signs of optimism in global economy
  • Capital Gains Tax Residential Property Disposals 60 day reporting
  • HNWIs cutting pension contributions
  • Achieving real financial empowerment
  • IHT goes mainstream
  • Pensions – what’s changing

Spring Edition 2023

Summary:

  • Investor confidence returns
  • Taking steps to offset fiscal drag
  • Spring Budget Recap
  • Transferring wealth, your way
  • Are you a wealth accumulator?
  • A pension – the best (retirement) gift for your child
  • Taxman on the trail of unpaid IHT

Autumn Edition 2021

Summary:

  • Grounds for economic optimism as we journey through the autumn
  • Muddy waters swirl around IHT
  • COVID prompts uplift in grandparental support
  • COP26 – working together to tackle the climate crisis
  • Balancing money and mindset to become a financial wellbeing ‘all-rounder’
  • Sudden Wealth Syndrome: dealing with a financial windfall
  • ‘Noise’ blocking – good for your portfolio

Summer Edition 2021

Summary:

  • Reasons to be cheerful
  • Summer may be here but what about the LTA freeze?
  • Dividend decline slowing
  • COVID: Changing the way we invest
  • Retirees tempted by ‘risky’ investments
  • Saving for private education
  • ‘Secret accounts’ slow the probate process
  • Rising inheritances and deficit may hasten IHT change

Spring Edition 2021

Summary:

  • Vaccines put a spring in investors’ step
  • The world’s happiest retirees
  • A little more than a year after coronavirus hit our shores…
  • More people accessing pension cash
  • ESG: A megatrend here to stay
  • Third of retirees financially supporting family
  • Dividends down 44% year-on-year

Winter Edition 2020

Summary:

  • Glimmers of hope for the New Year
  • IHT receipts fall for first time in a decade
  • New Year’s resolution? Get to know your pension age(s)
  • Retirement – it’s not ALL about your finances
  • ESG on the business agenda in 2021
  • Awaiting the green shoots of spring? Use your time effectively
  • COVID heightens intergenerational issues