It's been a hectic year with many challenges but 2024 beckons with huge potential and lots of new initiatives from us too - keep an eye out.

We're taking a short festive break now until 27 December when we'll bring you a limited news service between Christmas and New Year with our full service resuming on 2 January.

Our normal weekend newsletters will be sent this weekend.

In the meantime, you can catch up with all the news and comment from this year 24/7 over the holidays on Financial Planning Today website. 

In case you haven't received a Christmas card from us, this year we are making a donation instead to the Trussell Trust which supports many UK food banks.

However, as a festive gift from us we are also giving some free Christmas extras to all registered readers (registration is free, by the way):

• We've doubled our usual monthly website article limit for non-subscribers to 20 articles for the next 2 weeks - all you need to do is register to carry on reading. If you are already registered this free upgrade will take place automatically. You can also register now to benefit.

• We've also made our premium publication, Financial Planning Magazine, free to read for the next 2 weeks - here's the link to view the latest issue https://bit.ly/2ZdVXWz - If you like the magazine please subscribe to carry view every issue. 

Your subscriptions help us to invest in our journalism and bring you an even better service and are always appreciated. Subscriptions cost just £9.99 a month (or less if you subscribe for an annual package) and you can cancel a monthly subscription at any time. 

Financial Planning Today editor Kevin O'Donnell said: "It's been a hugely eventful year for Financial Planning and Paraplanning and it's been our pleasure to bring you the profession's very latest news. We look forward to doing the same in 2024 and to bring some new ideas too, including a new look Financial Planning Today magazine in January. Merry Christmas to all our readers and thanks for your support."

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