How to get nearly one million young people into work. Burnham to give mayors powers to help ‘lost generation’ of Neets. The regional devolution plan will shift Whitehall budgets to local authorities as unemployment among young people hits record high across the country. The story is about a significant proposed shift in how the UK … Continue reading Andy Burnham will give mayors and councils responsibility for helping a “lost generation”
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
Is the Finance Industry Devouring the UK Economy — or Have We Forgotten What Creates Wealth? A recent article by Prem Sikka asks a provocative question: has Britain's obsession with finance come at the expense of the real economy? It is a question worth asking. For decades, successive governments have treated the financial services sector … Continue reading The finance curse is devouring the UK
Total Wealth OS: The World’s First Sovereign Wealth Operating System
Total Wealth OS: The World’s First Sovereign Wealth Operating System Artificial intelligence is changing the structure of financial power. For decades, people have been told that wealth management means handing over control. Delegate to the adviser. Trust the platform. Follow the institution. Accept the product menu. Pay the ongoing fee. That model was built for … Continue reading Total Wealth OS: The World’s First Sovereign Wealth Operating System
Financial Planning or Financial Conditioning? Why the Honours System Reveals What Financial Services Still Rewards
The King’s Birthday Honours List 2026 offered a small but revealing moment for anyone watching the future of financial planning. Chris Hulatt, co-founder of Octopus Group, was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship. On one level, this is easy to understand. Octopus has become one of the most visible entrepreneurial success stories in UK … Continue reading Financial Planning or Financial Conditioning? Why the Honours System Reveals What Financial Services Still Rewards
The Wealth We Keep Forgetting: Lessons on Human Capital for Total Wealth Planners
For decades, financial planning has been built around a narrow idea of wealth. Money. Assets. Investments. Pensions. Portfolios. Tax wrappers. These things matter. But they are not the whole story. In many cases, they are not even the starting point. The deeper question is this: What enables a person to live well, adapt, contribute, recover, … Continue reading The Wealth We Keep Forgetting: Lessons on Human Capital for Total Wealth Planners
The Financial Advice Market Is Still Selling Dependency. Consumers Are Moving Towards Agency.
How should we understand the emerging shift from dependency to agency in the financial advice market, particularly as AI reduces information asymmetry and increases consumers’ ability to understand, model and challenge financial decisions for themselves? My working hypothesis is that the supply side of the market remains relatively rigid and anchored in the traditional dependency … Continue reading The Financial Advice Market Is Still Selling Dependency. Consumers Are Moving Towards Agency.
The Trust Dividend: Why Structurally Trustworthy Financial Systems Would Create More Wealth, Not Less
For years, public debate around financial services has been framed as a battle between markets and consumers. One side argues that finance drives prosperity.The other argues that finance extracts wealth from society. But both sides may be missing something important. The real issue is not whether financial services should exist.The real issue is whether the … Continue reading The Trust Dividend: Why Structurally Trustworthy Financial Systems Would Create More Wealth, Not Less
Growth for Whom? Why Restoring Human Agency May Be the Real National Challenge
Growth for Whom? Why Restoring Human Agency May Be the Real National Challenge In a recent article, Rishi Sunak argued that economic growth remains the defining challenge facing Britain. Without stronger growth, he warned, public finances worsen, politics becomes more volatile, and increasingly difficult decisions must be made regarding regulation, the size of the state, … Continue reading Growth for Whom? Why Restoring Human Agency May Be the Real National Challenge
Most of Society Operates Outside the FCA Perimeter
Why restoring human agency is not a crime For many people in Britain, the phrase “unregulated” has quietly become synonymous with “illegal.” That confusion is growing. Every time headlines appear about unauthorised investment schemes, finfluencer prosecutions, pension scams, or illegal financial promotions, the public absorbs a subtle psychological message: If you are not FCA authorised, … Continue reading Most of Society Operates Outside the FCA Perimeter
Vulnerability, Capability, and the Total Wealth Planner
Reframing financial planning beyond the regulatory perimeter The financial services industry has long organised itself around regulation. Advice, products, permissions, and compliance frameworks form the dominant architecture through which financial decisions are understood and delivered. Yet this architecture, while necessary, is partial. It governs only a small part of the reality it seeks to influence. … Continue reading Vulnerability, Capability, and the Total Wealth Planner
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