News & Blog

  • 01 November 2024

    Our Guide to the Autumn Budget 2024

    By FMB

    On Wednesday 30th October, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressed the Commons to deliver the Autumn Budget 2024.

    In our comprehensive guide we analyse the key tax changes and outline the practical implications for you, your family and your business.

    For your copy, please just click on the download button below.

  • 18 September 2024

    Beware Shoulder Surfing

    By FMB

    Now manufacturers and software developers find more ways to make our mobile devices secure with biometrics and multi factor authentication, inevitably fraudsters are looking to human error to let them in.

    The value is not really in your phone, it is in cracking the apps on there to access your financial information.

    Sadly watching over your shoulder as you type in your

  • 08 August 2024

    FMB is awarded B Corp certification

    By FMB

    What have Fatface, Gousto, Sipsmith Gin, Ella’s Kitchen and Patagonia all got in common with FMB?

    We are all certified B Corp businesses!

    FMB has been a family led, community-focused business since it was founded by Liz and Ruth’s Dad Les in 1987. Many long-standing clients will remember the many fundraising events Les used to organise.

    Thanks to Les and his passion

  • 07 August 2024

    How to stay sane in a bad news world

    By FMB

    There seems to be bad news on a daily basis, but remembering it was ever thus can be difficult. There is something in the phrase “ignorance is bliss”, but then how do you stay informed? Our team give their strategies for keeping a healthy sense of perspective.

    Personally, as much as I love listening to the radio, during covid the constant repetition of the same bad news

  • 09 May 2024

    Wellbeing Week at FMB

    By FMB

    It's the Mental Health Foundation's awareness week beginning on the 13th May. The theme is movement and we have lots of activities planned at lunchtime and after work. Running, desk stretches and a team rounders tournament!

    As well as movement, sleep is also crucial for good mental and physical health. In a job which can be mentally taxing, we sometimes leave our brains

  • 26 April 2024

    Where next for the global economy?

    By FMB

    While the latest forecast released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does suggest global growth is likely to remain below its long-term historic average, the update did strike a relatively optimistic note with the organisation’s Chief Economist saying a global "soft landing" was in sight.

    Global growth upgraded

    In its first assessment of world economic prospects

  • 26 April 2024

    Transfer Window

    By FMB

    Recently published research suggests the long-heralded ‘great wealth transfer’ is now firmly underway, which inevitably heightens the need for carefully considered intergenerational financial planning as assets continue to flow down the generations.

    The great transfer

    Dubbed by analysts the ‘great wealth transfer,’ the next two decades are set to witness the largest

  • 25 April 2024

    Investor Confidence Returns

    By FMB

    Increased investor confidence in equity funds over the last few months has been evidenced by a leading Index*, with UK investors at their most bullish in almost three years.

    Equity fund inflows reached £2.01bn in January, one of the top ten months on record and the highest since April 2021. In addition, the January Index reported:

    • US equity funds had record inflows of £

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