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Pension cost of delay

Pensions – Start saving now! The Sunday Times reveals some interesting figures on the cost of delay when starting saving towards your retirement. If you want an annual income in…

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Sustainable Income

What is sustainable income? In an endeavor to simplify a complex area some financial institutions publish what they believe to be the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate that can be made from investments…

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Pension Transfers

Transferring from your company pension – or not…. Recent changes in the way many final salary pension schemes are valued have led to a significant increase in the resulting values….

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State Pension Triple Lock

State Pension Triple Lock – A guarantee that might not be! Introduced in 2010 the Triple lock guaranteed to increase the State Pension each year by the higher of:- Inflation Average…

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Student Loans

Student Loans – Investment or Millstone? Now that the RPI figure for March has been set at 3.1% it means that student loans from September 17 will be 6.1%, an increase…

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LISA

The new Lifetime ISA (LISA) From April 6th you will be able to start saving in to the new LISA (if you can find a provider that offers one!). Contributions…

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Investing now?

Is now a good time to invest? A regular question being asked by clients considering end of year pension and ISA contributions.  We don’t have a crystal ball!  But we…

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DIY ISA For those wanting to do a quick ‘Stocks & Shares’ ISA themselves, The Sunday Times reports that Cavendish Online are one of the cheapest at a charge of…

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Vacancy

ADMINISTRATOR NEEDED One of our brilliant and long standing administrators is moving home so will be leaving us!  🙁 We are looking to replace her with another organised and capable…

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Budget 2017

Budget 2017 Click here for one of the many Budget summaries we have been sent. There’s more to it than the news grabbing NI increase for the self-employed….

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