{"id":472,"date":"2015-05-13T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=472"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:26:31","slug":"the-week-in-numbers-13th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/the-week-in-numbers-13th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Numbers &#8211; 13th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Week in Numbers<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"btn-wrap\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">12m<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Number of actions taken by MAS users in 2014\/15 \u2013 far higher than the organisation\u2019s 4.5 million target<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>1%<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; cashback offer for first-time buyers launched by Halifax this week<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Number of advice firms issued with Section 166 reports (also known as a skilled persons report) by the FCA in relation to insistent transfers<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>\u00a311bn<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Outflows seen by Aberdeen Asset Management in the six months to the end of March<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>11%<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; fall in profits reported by Lloyds for the first quarter after it took a \u00a3660m hit following the sale of TSB<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>\u00a34.1m<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Price paid by advice consolidation firm AFH financial to acquire national firm Independent Financial Services (UK)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>65%<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; Proportion of 55 to 64-year-olds who are not aware of changes to pension death tax rules, a survey commissioned by Old Mutual says<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>\u00a31.4bn<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Annual slump in retail fund sales in March, according to the IA<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lit-up-city-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"lit up city\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lit-up-city-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lit-up-city.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published in Money Marketing magazine, 7<sup>th<\/sup> May 2015 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Week in Numbers 12m \u2013 Number of actions taken by MAS users in 2014\/15 \u2013 far higher than the organisation\u2019s 4.5 million target 1% &#8211; cashback offer for first-time buyers launched by Halifax this week 8 \u2013 Number of advice firms issued with Section 166 reports (also known as a skilled persons report) by the FCA in relation to insistent transfers \u00a311bn \u2013 Outflows seen by Aberdeen Asset Management in the six months to the end of March 11% &#8211; fall in profits reported by Lloyds for the first quarter after it took a \u00a3660m hit following the sale&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"app","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,13],"tags":[36,75,76,59,74,33],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-services-news","category-statistics","tag-advice","tag-advice-firms","tag-fca","tag-pension","tag-price","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}