Neil MacGillivray: Déjà vu all over again

Implications of Summer Finance Bill

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The election may have forced him to shelve all his post-Budget presentations but, with the Summer Finance Bill now crawling through Parliament, Neil MacGillivray is back ahead of the game. So what has caught his eye?

Conference season - of the financial services variety rather than party political - has kicked off with a bang. In three weeks alone I have had the privilege to speak at the Paraplanner Powwow, the James Hay Retirement Symposium and the Henry Stewart Conference, with a pretty full diary through until the end of November. I have to say I tend to become a bit stressed before such events. The time taken to pull the presentations together, trying to ensure the content is relevant to the audience and then to go through our compliance regime while trying to retain some humour in the slides is ...

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