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The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Kirby MP, has appointed Ed Anderson as the new Chairman of the board of NS&I. Ed took up his new role from 1 January 2017.

Two people in the south of England have each received a million glad tidings in the first Premium Bonds draw of the New Year.

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.

A man in Gloucestershire and a woman in Essex are celebrating a welcome bonus ahead of the festive season as ERNIE has drawn out the final Premium Bond £1 million jackpot winners of 2016.

Sixty years is a long time in anyone’s book: in that time there have been 12 British Prime Ministers, five UK Eurovision winners, and there have been over 8,000 episodes of Coronation Street broadcasted to homes up and down the country.

While Premium Bonds celebrate their 60th anniversary today, ERNIE, the random number generator is also celebrating a major milestone by making the 350th Premium Bonds millionaire.

It would seem that the only way is Essex after a lucky lady in the county learned that she has become one of October’s Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winners.

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.

Lancashire and Suffolk have become the latest regions to celebrate Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winners, as ERNIE has randomly selected their numbers in September’s Premium Bonds draw.

The old phrase ‘Good things come to those who wait’ has been especially pertinent to Premium Bond winners in 2016, as a number of Premium Bonds winners have won high value prizes from Bonds bought 30 years ago or older.