Posted on July 3, 2014 by admin - News, Wealth Creation
More than one in three people approaching retirement are unaware of the pensions reforms announced in the March Budget, according to new research[1] from MetLife. (more…)
Posted on July 3, 2014 by admin - Investment, News, Wealth Creation
Forget the bank of Mum and Dad – today’s young people are now receiving help from the bank of Gran and Grandad, with millions of grandparents offering financial support to their grandchildren. (more…)
Posted on July 3, 2014 by admin - Investment, News, Wealth Creation
Investors like to sort things into neat categories; it helps make sense of a highly complex world. Categories like ‘Emerging Markets’, ‘BRICs’ and the ‘Fragile Five’ have all been invented as easy-to-understand groupings of supposedly similar countries. Yet we have to be careful of such generalisations, because the more research you do, the more you realise that there are often more differences than similarities between these groupings. (more…)
Posted on May 7, 2014 by admin - News, Wealth Creation
The number of people in the UK with no savings at all has risen year-on-year from eight million to over nine million, or 1 in 5 of the UK adult population, according to the 2014 Scottish Widows Savings Report. This brings the proportion of people who have savings (67%) down to a level not seen since 2011. (more…)
Posted on March 3, 2014 by admin - Protection, Retirement, Wealth Creation
Families are feeling the impact of benefit cuts
The cost of bringing up a child has reached £227,266, up from £222,458 last year, with the first year of a child’s life seeing the largest increase. (more…)
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