A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the team at Financial Planning Today to all our readers, advertisers and supporters.

We hope you have a wonderful break from all the frenzied financial noise of the year and enjoy plenty of time off.

We're taking a short festive break now until Monday 5 January when our usual news service will return.

Over the festive break we'll bring you some useful recaps of the year via our newsletters, including our 'Top 20 Most Read News Stories of 2025' and our 'Top 10 Unexpected Stories' - so watch out for those. 

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We haven't sent Christmas cards this year and have instead used the money saved and a further donation to help fund the building of a local primary school's children's garden in London.

As it's the season of giving, as a festive gift we are also giving some free Christmas extras to registered readers (registration is free, by the way):

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Financial Planning Today editor Kevin O'Donnell said: "It's been our pleasure to bring you the Financial Planning news this year and we look forward to serving you in 2026. A very Merry Christmas to all our readers, advertisers and supporters and thanks very much for your support this year."

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