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How to Prepare Your Post-Brexit Finances

Financial advisers say Britons can do more than simply diversify their investments before the transition period ends on Dec. 31.

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The posters cut right to the chase. Plastered across the U.K. this autumn, their four words offer passersby a stark warning: time is running out.

The new campaign is aimed at getting businesses to prepare for the end of Britain’s transition period with the European Union on Dec. 31. But time is also running short for Britons themselves — already burdened by the economic impacts of Covid-19 — seeking to prepare their own balance sheets for a potentially turbulent departure.