March Team news

Published on March 19, 2026 by Blackstone

There’s been plenty going on away from the day job this month.

Louise Watson headed up to The Shard in London to celebrate her son Josh’s birthday, which felt like a fairly good way to mark the occasion. We’re not sure whether the views or the bubbles were the main attraction, but either way it looked a memorable day out.

Gareth, meanwhile, was invited to speak on a Zoom meeting for 40 financial planners in Greece. It’s always nice to be asked, and reassuring to know that conversations about good financial planning travel rather well, even if the weather on the other end of the call looked considerably better than ours.

And then there’s Clare, who is disproportionately excited that the spring equinox arrives this month, bringing the point in the year when we start to enjoy more daylight than darkness. We can’t claim to match her level of enthusiasm, but we are very happy to share a recent sunrise photo she took — and, to be fair, it does make a pretty good case for her position.