Results

The latest edition of NS&I’s Financial Advice Barometer shows that twice as many advisers (22%) expect to increase their clients’ cash holdings in the next six months compared to the last time the survey was conducted in October 2016, when the figure was 11%.

Over 38 million people in the UK have not made any concrete plans for their financial needs in later life.

Only 36% of people across the UK have a will, with 35% not having yet considered writing one 46% of people have had no conversations about financial wishes in the event of death 59% of people think will-writing should be made easier

The second edition of NS&I’s Financial Advice Barometer reveals that security (protecting assets) has consolidated its position as the most important priority cited by advisers on behalf of their clients in terms of savings and investment options.

National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is today launching the first edition of its new Financial Advice Barometer – a quarterly survey of financial advisers. It finds that 83% of advisers are currently either ‘very confident’ or ‘fairly confident’ about the future prospects for the financial advice industry.

Savings levels in Britain rose over the summer months putting Summer 2015 as the healthiest on record for levels of personal savings in a decade, the latest research from NS&I reveals.

Brits are blowing their summer holiday budgets by an average of almost £120 an NS&I survey has revealed; and it’s more likely to be men who loosen the purse strings.

British people’s average monthly savings have increased by over 50% during the past 10 years according to the latest NS&I survey, with women’s savings accelerating faster than men’s.

Savers put aside more money during 2014 than at any time in the past decade according to data from the latest NS&I Quarterly Savings Survey.

A new survey from NS&I shows an increase in the amount that British women are saving in comparison to autumn last year.