Simoney Kyriakou π¨π¦
@MoorgateMermaid
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Senior Editor of FT trade title @FTAdviser. Also: author, public speaker, possibly funny. Leftist softy. God-botherer. Cat-stroker. All views my own. π¨π¦ π¬π§
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Joined July 2009
Dear All, a Christmas Cheer request for this podcaster @ODSPoor, a disability champion based in @Canada Please could y'all buy him something off his Amazon wishlist so he knows that people DO care, there IS hope and that a bank balance is not the measure of wealth, but hope is.
I have a dollar and I am waiting for an affordable rental (spent 9 years on #Toronto list, since 2022 here), while struggling with a lying, manipulative, stubborn and emotionally stunted older roomate. I feel forgotten, like I have no future and that is when #MAiD coerces, like
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Ahead of the reading, the Lords Delegated Powers committee published a report on the bill which claimed it had not given parliamentarians a sense of how delegated powers could work. https://t.co/i01e30f2Mc
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Baroness Maeve Sherlock presented the pensions schemes bill for its second reading in the House of Lords on Thursday (December 18).
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We're always grateful to @journo_chris for his insightful reporting on the financial impact of tax changes on the UK's food producers for FT Adviser @FarmingUK @NoFarmsNoFoods @NFUtweets
2025 has been a rough ride for UK farmers. It's been tarnished by climate issues, disease threats, price volatilities and by a Labour government that seems to have no interest in agriculture. Read my story @FT @FTAdviser @MoorgateMermaid
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ICYMI: βFor the hourly rate I would be paying, I would expect that advice to be hand crafted, hand knitted, perfectly tailored advice that is right for me. I wouldnβt want that to be automated." https://t.co/Ofm81ThVt7
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AI and technology are words on every advisersβ lips but for Rowan Whittington, who joined Dynamic Planner in 2024 as growth director for its white-labelled financial planning app Tram, the βwhizzy...
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Merry Christmas from the Bank of England The minutes from the 18th December MPC meeting showed the committee voted to cut Bank Base Rate 0.25% from 4% to 3.75% at midday today.
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Rowan Whittington on AI: "It is a buzzword and people are being sold a dream. But [a lot of] it is just not really true." https://t.co/Ofm81ThVt7
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AI and technology are words on every advisersβ lips but for Rowan Whittington, who joined Dynamic Planner in 2024 as growth director for its white-labelled financial planning app Tram, the βwhizzy...
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One of the most common misconceptions I come across is that people think they have to wait for a county court judgment or default to drop off their credit file before they apply for a mortgage. https://t.co/sNuoPmPUY4
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Just because you have bad credit it does not mean your dream of owning a home is over.
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In 2023, I was made homeless by the one I loved. In 2024, I relapsed and became seriously ill. In 2025, every penny I'd saved was stolen, and I was homeless once again. I nearly drank myself to death. I almost gave up. Today I stand, sober and healthy, because I refused to.
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@ki5umi Coca-Cola did not have as big an impact on Santa as is often claimed, they did not create him or even design his look. More here; https://t.co/g2njqry3wR
fakehistoryhunter.net
Every Christmas the same story goes around social media; Coca-Cola invented Santa or at least gave him a whole new look in the 1930s.They are the reason his suit is red, after all itβs the Coβ¦
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More delays over WTW Lifesight pension transfer https://t.co/Gaf13NJsEx
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A client of WTW Lifesight has waited four months for his pension to transfer out despite repeated chasing by him and his adviser.
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@NirWeingarten Coca-Cola did not have as big an impact on Santa as is often claimed, they did not create him or even design his look. More here; https://t.co/g2njqry3wR
fakehistoryhunter.net
Every Christmas the same story goes around social media; Coca-Cola invented Santa or at least gave him a whole new look in the 1930s.They are the reason his suit is red, after all itβs the Coβ¦
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This Texan restaurant leaving the American pitfall behind
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Legal and financial experts called in the pages of FT Adviser for a sea-change in the way Fos operates. FT Adviser has received a letter from a claimant against Fos, who has been embroiled in a court case: https://t.co/09t7SDwWZt
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FT Adviser broke the story of Giles Chapman and his wife, who have applied to
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This is the link to Mitchell's @amazonca wishlist. Any help for this man, who will be alone for 5 weeks this Christmas, would be gratefully received, please. Let's show some great British heart for our Canadian cousins! https://t.co/ZlIpwi69jH
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I have compiled my interviews based on decades of living with disabilities, repeated homelessness, multiple mental illnesses, invasive addictions, and also new lived experience based advocacy and activism now that I am finally safe after two decades: LINKTREE:
I have compiled my years of #disability, homelessness and lived experience based advocacy into two sources. Firstly my Linktree contains all the interviews (TVO, CTV W5, CBC, Al Jazeera, The Walrus, Trillium etc), podcasts (@ThePwdcast), and news articles featuring me talking
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As a result of the ONS's new methods of assessing migration into and out of the UK, the number of people who left the UK was also revised upwards to 257,000 in 2024 compared to the previous figure of 77,000. https://t.co/666kieqUr1
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Those returning to the UK could greatly benefit from the introduction of long-term residence, according to David Morley, head of wealth structuring at Blevins Franks.
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Film and television portrayals of financial advisers and investment advisers are so sensationalised and stereotyped that it is no wonder many young people have the wrong idea of people working in the profession. https://t.co/3qMap5enzN
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Film and television portrayals of financial advisers and investment advisers are so sensationalised and stereotyped that it is no wonder many young people have the wrong idea of people working in the...
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