Bento Bulletin

I feel we are about to enter the dystopian world of Handmaids Tale. Aunt Lydia went on to say “This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will.

I have been quite sceptical, some may say quite wrongly, about this virus and the impact it’s having and the regrettable deaths that have come about. I should declare an age group interest. I fall into the age range of ‘at risk’ so in many respects I should, as Sir Hector Sants once said, ‘be very afraid’.

It is over a year since we surveyed you for the Heath Report 3 and so much has changed. 

We know that the number of advisers retiring this year far exceeded our expectations.

Headlines like this from the Daily Mail on the 21^st March do not help soothe the public mood, and especially those whose pension and saving funds have seen huge losses.

Once again, the spectre of hedge funds trading has raised its very unhealthy head again.

Panacea readers may recall that back in 2014 we did some work around Prostate cancer to create awareness that us guys needed to take care of ourselves a bit too, based on some very personal experiences. 

For those who recall that piece, I thought an update would be quite timely.

Panacea Adviser has today announced global asset manager AXA Investment Managers as the latest firm to join its growing roster of provider partners.

This new tie-up will provide the Panacea community with a range of tools to support investment planning, including detailed information on fund performance, economic outlooks and market reports plus a host of brand new CPD material.

As UK and global hysteria increases, stock markets crashing, holidays ruined, flights to the far east cut, schools closing, self-isolation increasing, even C4’s Jon Snow, 6 nations rugby put on hold and globally goodness knows what else to try and contain the march of the Covid19 virus.