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- 10 Perks of Being Retired
- 10 Reasons Why You Should NOT be Opting Out of the NHS Pension
- 10 Things To Consider Before Creating A New Will
- 10 Ways To Be Financially Prepared For Your Death
- 115% Tax Relief
- 2 Apps to help you save without budgeting or noticing
- 2 Proven Strategies That Will Make Investment Less Scary
- 3 Phases of Retirement Spending
- 3 Ways To Assess The Investment Risk You Should be Taking
- 3 Ways You Can Prepare For The Upcoming Budget
- 4 Investing gurus to follow
- 4 Proven Strategies For Your Ethical Investment
- 4 Reasons Why You Might Still Need Life Insurance In Retirement
- 5 benefits of choosing a mobile current account
- 5 Benefits Of Consolidating Your Pensions
- 5 Different Proven Investment Strategies
- 5 Reasons To Still Consider A Pension Annuity
- 5 Reasons Why Now Is The Best Time To Review Your Finances
- 5 ways of dealing with an inheritance
- 6 Elements to a Successful Investment
- 6 Reasons Why Now Is The Time To Review Your Defined Benefit Pension
- 6 Tax Planning Actions To Take Before Tax Year End
- 6 Things To Check Before Combining Your Pensions
- 7 Options For Dealing With NHS Pension Tax Issues
- 7 Steps To Get Retirement Ready
- A £4,000 Per Month Retirement
- A Few Pension Myths
- A Gifting Strategy That Avoids Inheritance Tax And More
- A Private OEIC – Your Own Family Investment Fund
- A Secure Retirement Income Whilst Still Investing
- A superb spending tracker keeping your money safe
- A Tax Free Income Of £47,600 With These Tax Allowances
- A way around Inheritance Tax
- Active Funds Are Great, Just Don’t Use Them
- All your finances in one place: Introducing Moneyhub
- An Insurance Return Could Be Better Than An Investment Return In Retirement
- An investment that can increase your money by 150%!
- Another Kick In The Teeth For Cash Savings
- Are ISA Allowances About to Change? What We Know So Far
- Are Pension Funds Safe?
- Are Your Investments Ripping You Off?
- Attending The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting
- Autumn Statement 2022 – Hunting For The Positives
- Autumn Statement 2023
- Avoid Inheritance Tax On Your Home
- Avoiding The Pension Lifetime Allowance Test At Age 75
- Bank of Nan and Grandad
- Be aware of the pension contribution limit
- Benefits and allowances you may be missing out on
- Best ISA Option For You
- Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency
- Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
- Brexit And Your Retirement
- Budget – we don’t all do it so just start noticing instead
- Budget – March 2020
- Budget: Key Points
- Budgeting for Retirement
- Building the best ever financial planning firm
- Can Index Funds Still Influence The Companies They Hold?
- Can Pensions Be Inherited?
- Can You Retire With £100,000?
- Cash ISAs Are Still Worth It
- Cashing In Your Pension
- Changing Someone Else’s Will
- Cheers! Autumn Budget 2021
- Claiming A Deceased Parent’s Pension
- Claiming Your Workplace Pension
- Compound interest: The secret to successful investing
- Contributing To A Pension After Retirement
- Converting Your Pension To An ISA
- Coronavirus Business Support
- Could you beat Orlando the cat?
- CPI For Annual Allowance Calculation
- Dealing With The Challenges of Pension Drawdown
- Defined Benefit Pension Death Benefits: What Really Happens When You Die?
- Defined Benefit Pension Transfer Fees
- Defined Benefit Pension Transfer Time Limits
- Defined Benefit Pensions and the Lifetime Allowance
- Defined Benefit Pensions And The State Pension Reduction
- Defined Benefit Transfer Values Hit Record Highs
- Defined Contribution Pensions vs Defined Benefit
- Developing A Good Money Habit
- Do I have to pay tax if I inherit a pension?
- Do You Have A Death Box?
- Do You Have A Dog Fund?
- Does My Partner Have To Pay Inheritance Tax?
- Does Your Family Medical History Really Impact Your Life Expectancy?
- Don’t Do This With Your Hargreaves Lansdown Pension
- Don’t Make This Huge Mistake With Your Pension Lump Sum
- Earliest Age Your Pension Can Be Taken
- Easy Investment Access – No Money Locked Up
- Entrepreneurs Relief Changes: What You Need To Know
- Ethical Investing
- Even John Lewis Can’t Afford Their Final Salary Pensions
- Events That Make A Will Invalid
- FCA Opens the Crypto Door: What Retail Investors Need to Know About the New ETN Rules
- Financial Advice in Milton Keynes and beyond
- Financial record keeping – How long to keep paperwork
- Finding A Lost Pension
- Five Reasons To Consolidate Your Pensions
- Five Things Riskier Than Investment Volatility
- Focusing On Income Not Capital In Retirement
- Forget these investment predictions for 2023 and focus on these facts for 2024
- Fractional Ownership
- Going Going Gone – Budget 2023
- GPs And The Lifetime Allowance
- Growth vs Income Funds in retirement
- Has Covid Changed Retirement?
- Have you got a bank Will?
- How a Deed of Variation Can Dramatically Reduce Your Inheritance Tax Bill
- How Different Governments Affect Your Investments
- How does the election affect the stock market?
- How exercising can save you money and protect your family
- How I’m Going To Pay My Newborn Son’s University Fees
- How Investment Benchmarks Help You Understand Your Pension Performance
- How long will retirement savings last?
- How Much Cash You Should Hold In Retirement
- How Much Money You Can Gift To A Family Member Tax Free
- How Much You Should Put In Your Investment Playpen
- How pension drawdown works
- How Pension Flexi-Access Drawdown Can Unlock Early Retirement Freedom
- How Safe Is Your Will?
- How the ‘Gift Out of Excess Income’ Rule Can Help You Avoid a Chargeable Lifetime Transfer
- How The Budget 2021 Impacts Your Retirement Planning
- How The Budget Destroyed Inheritance Tax Planning
- How The Government’s Borrowing Costs Will Be Crushing People’s Retirements AGAIN
- How the Rich Pay Little Tax: The Power of Using Debt Instead of Selling Investments
- How To Achieve Early Retirement
- How To Avoid Foreign Currency Fees Whilst On Holiday
- How To Avoid Paying Tax On Savings Interest
- How to calculate the pension lifetime allowance
- How to check a pension scam
- How To Choose A Safe Pension Withdrawal Rate
- How to choose the best investments for retirement
- How to deal with your finances after your partner’s death
- How to Find Out What Income You Could Get from Your Pension
- How To Gift A Critical Illness Policy To Your Children
- How to hold physical gold in a SIPP (and whether you should)
- How To Invest When Inflation Rises
- How To Invest Your Pension Money
- How to make ethical investments
- How to Make Trust Funds Work for You
- How To Protect Your Wealth From The New Labour Government
- How to save money: 5 simple ways of keeping more money for you
- How to save to become a millionaire
- How To Sort Out Your Old Pensions
- How To Spend More In Retirement
- How to spend more time with family
- How to start taking control of your money
- How To Stop Being Declined Insurance
- How Will The National Debt Be Repaid After Coronavirus?
- How Your Investment Can Influence A Company’s Behaviour
- Ignore investment outlooks
- Income From Your Investments
- Inheritance Tax On ISAs
- Inheriting A Pension
- Interest rates up, are investment changes required?
- Introducing The RTS Investment Strategy
- Invest a lump sum in one go or monthly?
- Invest For Your Children And Save Yourself Some Tax
- Investing A Lump Sum vs Pound Cost Averaging
- Investing In Covid Times
- Investing is a marathon not a sprint
- Investing Is Never Perfect
- Investment Funds Vs Shares – Which Is Right For You?
- Investment in Shares or Mutual Funds
- Investment Risk In Retirement
- Investment Risk Just Before Retirement
- Investment Risk Profiles Do Work
- Investment risk when picking individual companies
- Is It Safe To Have All Your Pensions In One Place?
- Is it still a good time to invest?
- Is It Still The Right Time To Transfer Your Gold Plated Pension?
- Is My SIPP Safe?
- Is Now Still a Good Time to Transfer a Defined Benefit Pension?
- Is Now The Time To Secure Your Pension Income Based On Annuity Rates Today?
- Is The UK State Pension Heading For Means Testing?
- It’s Not A Good Idea To Die An ISA Millionaire
- It’s The Time Of Gifting (To Avoid IHT)
- Just How Flexible Is Pension Drawdown?
- Keeping Fit In Retirement
- Labour Scrap Re-Introduction Of The Pension Lifetime Allowance – What Now?
- Labour’s Plans For Pensions – King’s Speech Special
- Last Minute State Pension Boost
- Lasting Power of Attorney – What does it mean?
- Leaving Everything In Order
- LISA vs Pension When Gifting To Children
- Loyalty Cards – Are They Worth It?
- LPA forms and Attorney Responsibilities
- Managing Your Pension – 5 Common Pension Mistakes
- Market Commentary – December 2018
- Market Commentary – February 2019
- Market Commentary – January 2019
- Market Commentary – April 2019
- Market Commentary – April 2020
- Market Commentary – August 2019
- Market Commentary – February 2020
- Market Commentary – January 2020
- Market Commentary – July 2019
- Market Commentary – June 2019
- Market Commentary – March 2019
- Market Commentary – March 2020
- Market Commentary – May 2019
- Market Commentary – November 2018
- Market Commentary – November 2019
- Market Commentary – October 2019
- Market Commentary – September 2019
- Master Investor Show 2019
- Maximising Your Retirement Income
- Moving abroad and tax
- National Insurance Credits For Grandparents
- Navigating Early Retirement Reduction Tables for Your Pension
- Negative Interest Rates
- New Long Term Care Funding – Why Losing Your Home Is Still A Possibility
- New Pension IHT Rules
- New Tax Year Planning With A Flexible ISA
- New Year Financial Priorities
- New year, new investment ideas for 2018
- Next generation financial advice
- No Deal Brexit Impact On Your Investments
- Offshore Bonds in Trust: A Smart Way to Beat Pension IHT
- Organising money priorities
- Pay off the mortgage or invest
- Pay Zero With This Little Extra Inheritance Tax Advice
- Paying Inheritance Tax Correctly Before HMRC Investigate
- Pension Contributions And The 50% Return
- Pension fees and charges
- Pension Increase Exchange (PIE)
- Pension tax free lump sum on retirement
- Pensions After Death – Easing The Pain
- Pensions and Inheritance Tax: A New, Complex Era from April 2027
- Pocket money app
- Property Funds Suspended
- Property In Your Investment Portfolio
- Protecting Your Money When Your Bank Goes Bust
- Questions to ask when looking for a Financial Adviser
- Recommended summer reading
- Reform UK’s Plans For Your Finances
- Retirement Age and Life Expectancy
- Retirement planning checklist
- Retirement planning starts with this easy step
- Retirement Spending And Long Term Care
- Retiring After A Redundancy – This Trick Could Boost Your Pension Pot
- Rules on qualifying for the State Pension
- Selling your business and going back to what you love
- Setting Goals For 2019
- Setting Up A Trust Fund
- Shielding Your Pension from Inheritance Tax
- Should I Make Changes To My Investment Strategy?
- Should People Over Age 65 Still Be Using Stocks and Shares ISAs?
- Should We Be Ignoring The UK As An Investment?
- Should We Downsize In Retirement?
- Should You Be Worried About A Falling Pound?
- Should you consolidate pensions?
- Should You Invest In Gold In 2023?
- Should You Invest in IPOs? Lessons From the Upcoming SpaceX Listing
- Should You Sell When a Market Crash Might Be Coming?
- Should You Still Invest Your Pension In The UK Stock Market?
- Should You Take Your Pension Tax Free Cash Now?
- Should You Use Your Pension to Invest in Property? What You Need to Know
- Small Caps Or Large Caps
- Software for business owners
- Some Things About Inheritance Tax You Might Not Have Been Aware Of
- Spring Statement 2019 – What You Need To Know
- State Pension Tax
- Stopping my grandad from being ripped off
- Sustainable Pension Withdrawals
- Taking pension early
- Taking Pension Tax Free Cash In Phases
- Taking The Lump Sum Option From Your Defined Benefit Pension
- Taking Your Pension Early To Avoid The Lifetime Allowance Charge
- Tax Efficient Investments For Higher Rate Taxpayers
- Tax Management During The Four Different Stages Of Retirement
- Tax On Investments
- Tax On Pension Drawdown – Messy Tax Codes
- Temporary Stock Market Declines Are Normal
- Testing Times
- Testing Times – Part Two
- The £800m Higher Rate Tax Relief Scandal
- The 7 Money Rules
- The Age You Can Take Your Defined Benefit Pension
- The Average Passive Investor Will Beat The Average Active Investor
- The Bank Of England And Your Investments
- The Best Family Trust
- The Best Investment Strategy for Your Pension at Every Stage of Life
- The Best Savings Rates
- The Best Way To Avoid Any Rises In National Insurance Payments
- The Best Way To Fight The Rising Cost Of Living In Retirement
- The Budget 2018 From A Financial Planning Point Of View
- The Costly Pension Mistake That Could Leave Your Family With a Massive Tax Bill
- The Dangers Of Pension Drawdown
- The difference between investing and trading
- The Great British Budget 2024
- The hidden dangers of the new dividend allowance
- The Hidden Power of Pension Annuity Value Protection: Should You Use It?
- The Hidden Problem With Pension Annuities: The Death Benefits
- The Hidden Trick To Increasing Your ISA Allowance
- The Man Who Put Millions Back Into Investors Pockets
- The Perfect Retirement Age
- The Problem With Accessing Your Pension Whilst Still Working
- The Reason You May Not Get The Full State Pension
- The revolutionary solution to online credit card fraud
- The Right Time To Plan For Inheritance Tax
- The Scandal Of High Cost Tracker Funds
- The simple pros and cons of transferring a Final Salary Pension
- The State Of The UK Economy At The Start Of 2019
- The Three Most Likely Pension Changes Coming In The Budget 2024
- The Worst Case Scenario For Your Retirement Portfolio
- Topping Up Your State Pension
- Transferring Your Defined Benefit Pension
- Trimming The Edges – Spring Statement 2022
- Trying To Get Defined Benefit Pension Advice
- TV choice and how to save money
- Two Big Tax Freezes That Are Bad For Your Wealth
- UK Active Fund Managers Have Had a Terrible Year
- Unclaimed Child Trust Funds
- Under 47? New Minimum Age For Pension Access Could Mean You Retire 2 Years Later Than Planned
- Under The Bonnet Of The RTS Investment Strategy
- Understanding Poor Returns from Diversified Portfolios in Recent Years
- Understanding Real Inflation
- Unplug And Prosper: The Art Of Ignoring Your Investments
- Use Debt Or Investments In Retirement
- Using a Redundancy Payout to Kick-Start Your Retirement
- Using Pension Contributions to Reduce Capital Gains Tax When Selling an Investment Property
- Using Your Pension To Buy A House For Your Child
- Waiting longer for pension payout – the myth
- Watch Out For The Pension Tax Trap
- We Are Programmed To Be Rubbish Investors
- Weekly Financial Update – 01.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 02.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 03.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 06.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 08.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 09.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 10.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 13.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 15.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 16.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 17.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 22.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 23.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 24.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 25.06.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 29.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 30.07.2020
- What A Labour Government Might Mean For Your Retirement Savings
- What A New US President Means For Your Investments
- What An Investment Risk Scale Really Means
- What are personal finance apps and how do they work?
- What Does All This Political Turmoil Mean For Your Investments?
- What happened when I chatted to Cleo about my money
- What happens to my Final Salary Pension if the company goes bust?
- What happens to my pension if I die?
- What Happens To Your Dog When You Die
- What Happens To Your Husband’s State Pension When He Dies
- What happens to your pension when you leave the UK
- What Happens To Your Pension When You Retire
- What Happens When We Are All Passive Investors?
- What Is A Potentially Exempt Transfer?
- What is inflation and why is it not your friend?
- What is the State Pension Triple Lock?
- What Money Really Is
- What Pension Will I Get?
- What Retirement Income You Need
- What Retirement Money Should You Spend First?
- What the Latest UK Budget Means for Your Money
- What The World’s Greatest Investor Teaches Us About Investing
- What to do with NSandI Pensioner Bonds
- What To Do With Small Pension Pots
- What To Do With Your End Of Year Bonus
- What You Need To Declare To HMRC
- When And How Is The Pension Annual Allowance Charge Paid?
- When Inheritance Tax Is Due
- When It Comes To Investing – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favour
- When To Sell An Investment
- When You Don’t Pay Tax In Retirement
- When You Might Pay Inheritance Tax On A Pension
- Where Pension Funds Invest
- Where To Invest After Maxing Out ISA and Pension
- Why A Self Invested Personal Pension Is The Best Account For Stock Pickers
- Why all lottery players should have £100 in Premium Bonds
- Why Chartered status matters
- Why Company Pension Contributions Are Better Than Personal Contributions
- Why HMRC Can Still Tax You – Even If You Leave the UK
- Why It Is Vital You Know What’s Inside Your Investment Portfolio
- Why It’s Best To Retire At The End Of The Tax Year
- Why It’s Best To Use Your ISA Allowance At The Start Of The Tax Year
- Why It’s Nearly Impossible To Transfer A Defined Benefit Pension
- Why Labour’s Pension Megafunds Are A Bad Idea
- Why Managed Portfolio Descriptions Are A Load Of Rubbish
- Why Most Investors Focus on the Wrong Number for Retirement
- Why New General Investment Account Tax Rates Are Going To Be Damaging
- Why Now Is The Time To Re-Start Pension Contributions
- Why Pension Drawdown Doesn’t Mean a Lifetime of Tax Returns
- Why Residential Property Still Belongs in Your Investment Portfolio — Even After the Renters’ Rights Act
- Why Selling to “Protect” Your Portfolio Is Often the Worst Move You Can Make
- Why Taking Your Pension Tax-Free Lump Sum After Age 75 Could Save Your Family Thousands (From April 2027)
- Why the “Retirement Age” on Your Pension Statement Is Not the Age You Can Access Your Pension
- Why the Right Investment Structure Matters More Than Anything Else in Your Pension
- Why You Can’t Rely On Dividends For Your Retirement Income
- Why You Can’t Rely On Dividends Alone
- Why You May Have Multiple Pension Pots In Drawdown
- Why You Might Not Get A Full State Pension Even With 35 Years National Insurance Contributions
- Why You Might Transfer A Defined Benefit Pension For An Annuity
- Why You Might Want to Hold More Than One Private Pension
- Why You Should Consider A Phased Retirement
- Why You Should Invest Even If You Have All The Money You’ll Ever Need
- Why You Should Keep Your Inherited Pension In A Pension
- Why you should make a Will
- Why You Should Not Defer Your State Pension
- Work and childcare balance
- Working And Receiving A Pension
- Worried About Investing At This Time? Read This
- You Can Still Pay Into A Pension After Taking A Lump Sum
- You Don’t Need Perfect Timing To Be A Successful Investor
- You Have Probably Got Investment Risk All Wrong
- You May Soon Have To Pay Tax On Your Savings
- Your Business Should Never Be Your Pension
- Your Default Pension Fund Is Probably Rubbish
Business Planning
- 6 Tax Planning Actions To Take Before Tax Year End
- Coronavirus Business Support
- Entrepreneurs Relief Changes: What You Need To Know
- Financial greed must be avoided when starting a business
- Investment risk when picking individual companies
- Market Commentary – February 2019
- Market Commentary – January 2019
- Market Commentary – April 2019
- Market Commentary – August 2019
- Market Commentary – July 2019
- Market Commentary – June 2019
- Market Commentary – March 2019
- Market Commentary – March 2020
- Market Commentary – May 2019
- Market Commentary – November 2018
- Market Commentary – November 2019
- Market Commentary – September 2019
- My current 3 favourite business travel apps
- Selling your business and going back to what you love
- Temporary Stock Market Declines Are Normal
- Your Business Should Never Be Your Pension
Financial Planning
- 10 Things To Consider Before Creating A New Will
- 115% Tax Relief
- 2 Apps to help you save without budgeting or noticing
- 2 Proven Strategies That Will Make Investment Less Scary
- 3 Ways You Can Prepare For The Upcoming Budget
- 4 Investing gurus to follow
- 4 Proven Strategies For Your Ethical Investment
- 5 benefits of choosing a mobile current account
- 5 Reasons to get your Will sorted
- 5 Reasons Why Now Is The Best Time To Review Your Finances
- 5 ways of dealing with an inheritance
- 6 Elements to a Successful Investment
- 6 Tax Planning Actions To Take Before Tax Year End
- A £4,000 Per Month Retirement
- A Few Pension Myths
- A Private OEIC – Your Own Family Investment Fund
- A super charged investment top up
- A superb spending tracker keeping your money safe
- A way around Inheritance Tax
- Active Funds Are Great, Just Don’t Use Them
- All your finances in one place: Introducing Moneyhub
- An investment that can increase your money by 150%!
- Another Kick In The Teeth For Cash Savings
- Are ISA Allowances About to Change? What We Know So Far
- Are Your Investments Ripping You Off?
- Attending The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting
- Autumn Statement 2022 – Hunting For The Positives
- Autumn Statement 2023
- Avoid Inheritance Tax On Your Home
- Bank of Nan and Grandad
- Benefits and allowances you may be missing out on
- Best ISA Option For You
- Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency
- Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
- Brexit And Your Retirement
- Budget – we don’t all do it so just start noticing instead
- Budget – March 2020
- Budget: Key Points
- Building the best ever financial planning firm
- Can Index Funds Still Influence The Companies They Hold?
- Can You Retire With £100,000?
- Cash ISAs Are Still Worth It
- Changing Someone Else’s Will
- Cheers! Autumn Budget 2021
- Compound interest: The secret to successful investing
- Converting Your Pension To An ISA
- Could you beat Orlando the cat?
- Developing A Good Money Habit
- Do You Have A Dog Fund?
- Does My Partner Have To Pay Inheritance Tax?
- Does Your Family Medical History Really Impact Your Life Expectancy?
- Don’t Do This With Your Hargreaves Lansdown Pension
- Earning a decent return on your cash savings
- Easy Investment Access – No Money Locked Up
- Ethical Investing
- FCA Opens the Crypto Door: What Retail Investors Need to Know About the New ETN Rules
- Financial record keeping – How long to keep paperwork
- Finding A Lost Pension
- Five Things Riskier Than Investment Volatility
- Forget these investment predictions for 2023 and focus on these facts for 2024
- Fractional Ownership
- Going Going Gone – Budget 2023
- How a Deed of Variation Can Dramatically Reduce Your Inheritance Tax Bill
- How Different Governments Affect Your Investments
- How exercising can save you money and protect your family
- How I’m Going To Pay My Newborn Son’s University Fees
- How Much Cash You Should Hold In Retirement
- How Much Money You Can Gift To A Family Member Tax Free
- How Much You Should Put In Your Investment Playpen
- How Safe Is Your Will?
- How the ‘Gift Out of Excess Income’ Rule Can Help You Avoid a Chargeable Lifetime Transfer
- How The Budget Destroyed Inheritance Tax Planning
- How the Rich Pay Little Tax: The Power of Using Debt Instead of Selling Investments
- How To Achieve Early Retirement
- How To Avoid Foreign Currency Fees Whilst On Holiday
- How To Avoid Paying Tax On Savings Interest
- How To Invest When Inflation Rises
- How to make ethical investments
- How to Make Trust Funds Work for You
- How To Protect Your Wealth From The New Labour Government
- How to save money: 5 simple ways of keeping more money for you
- How to save to become a millionaire
- How To Spend More In Retirement
- How to start taking control of your money
- How Your Investment Can Influence A Company’s Behaviour
- Ignore ‘hot stock’ picks
- Ignore investment outlooks
- Income From Your Investments
- Inheritance Tax On ISAs
- Interest rates up, are investment changes required?
- Introducing The RTS Investment Strategy
- Invest a lump sum in one go or monthly?
- Invest For Your Children And Save Yourself Some Tax
- Investing A Lump Sum vs Pound Cost Averaging
- Investing for those that don’t have time
- Investing In Covid Times
- Investing is a marathon not a sprint
- Investing Is Never Perfect
- Investing rules of thumb
- Investment Funds Vs Shares – Which Is Right For You?
- Investment in Shares or Mutual Funds
- Investment Risk Profiles Do Work
- Investment risk when picking individual companies
- Is it still a good time to invest?
- It’s Not A Good Idea To Die An ISA Millionaire
- Just say yes
- Labour’s Plans For Pensions – King’s Speech Special
- Last Minute State Pension Boost
- Loyalty Cards – Are They Worth It?
- LPA forms and Attorney Responsibilities
- Market Commentary – December 2018
- Market Commentary – April 2020
- Market Commentary – August 2019
- Market Commentary – February 2020
- Market Commentary – January 2020
- Market Commentary – July 2019
- Market Commentary – March 2020
- Market Commentary – May 2019
- Market Commentary – November 2018
- Market Commentary – November 2019
- Market Commentary – October 2019
- Master Investor Show 2019
- National Insurance Credits For Grandparents
- Negative Interest Rates
- New Tax Year Planning With A Flexible ISA
- New Year Financial Priorities
- New year, new investment ideas for 2018
- Next generation financial advice
- No Deal Brexit Impact On Your Investments
- Organising money priorities
- Pay off the mortgage or invest
- Pocket money app
- Property Funds Suspended
- Property In Your Investment Portfolio
- Protecting Your Money When Your Bank Goes Bust
- Questions to ask when looking for a Financial Adviser
- Reform UK’s Plans For Your Finances
- Retirement Spending And Long Term Care
- Setting Goals For 2019
- Setting Up A Trust Fund
- Should I Make Changes To My Investment Strategy?
- Should People Over Age 65 Still Be Using Stocks and Shares ISAs?
- Should We Be Ignoring The UK As An Investment?
- Should We Downsize In Retirement?
- Should You Be Worried About A Falling Pound?
- Should You Invest In Gold In 2023?
- Should You Invest in IPOs? Lessons From the Upcoming SpaceX Listing
- Should You Sell When a Market Crash Might Be Coming?
- Small Caps Or Large Caps
- Software for business owners
- Some Things About Inheritance Tax You Might Not Have Been Aware Of
- Spring Statement 2019 – What You Need To Know
- Tax Efficient Investments For Higher Rate Taxpayers
- Tax Management During The Four Different Stages Of Retirement
- Tax On Investments
- Testing Times
- Testing Times – Part Two
- The 7 Money Rules
- The Average Passive Investor Will Beat The Average Active Investor
- The Bank Of England And Your Investments
- The Best Family Trust
- The Best Savings Rates
- The Best Way To Fight The Rising Cost Of Living In Retirement
- The Budget 2018 From A Financial Planning Point Of View
- The Great British Budget 2024
- The Hidden Dangers of Holding Money in Foreign Bank Accounts
- The hidden dangers of the new dividend allowance
- The Hidden Trick To Increasing Your ISA Allowance
- The Man Who Put Millions Back Into Investors Pockets
- The revolutionary solution to online credit card fraud
- The Right Time To Plan For Inheritance Tax
- The Scandal Of High Cost Tracker Funds
- The State Of The UK Economy At The Start Of 2019
- Trimming The Edges – Spring Statement 2022
- TV choice and how to save money
- Two Big Tax Freezes That Are Bad For Your Wealth
- UK Active Fund Managers Have Had a Terrible Year
- Unclaimed Child Trust Funds
- Under The Bonnet Of The RTS Investment Strategy
- Understanding Poor Returns from Diversified Portfolios in Recent Years
- Understanding Real Inflation
- Unplug And Prosper: The Art Of Ignoring Your Investments
- Use Debt Or Investments In Retirement
- Using a Redundancy Payout to Kick-Start Your Retirement
- Using Pension Contributions to Reduce Capital Gains Tax When Selling an Investment Property
- We Are Programmed To Be Rubbish Investors
- Weekly Financial Update – 01.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 02.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 03.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 03.12.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 05.11.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 06.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 08.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 09.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 10.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 12.11.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 13.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 14.05.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 15.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 16.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 17.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 18.06.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 19.11.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 20.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 21.05.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 22.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 23.07.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 24.09.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 25.06.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 26.11.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 27.08.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 28.05.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 29.10.2020
- Weekly Financial Update – 30.07.2020
- What A Labour Government Might Mean For Your Retirement Savings
- What A New US President Means For Your Investments
- What are personal finance apps and how do they work?
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- What To Do With Small Pension Pots
- What You Need To Declare To HMRC
- When Inheritance Tax Is Due
- When It Comes To Investing – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favour
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- Why Chartered status matters
- Why credit cards are good
- Why HMRC Can Still Tax You – Even If You Leave the UK
- Why It Is Vital You Know What’s Inside Your Investment Portfolio
- Why It’s Best To Use Your ISA Allowance At The Start Of The Tax Year
- Why Managed Portfolio Descriptions Are A Load Of Rubbish
- Why More Investors Are Using Limited Companies to Grow Their Wealth
- Why Most Investors Focus on the Wrong Number for Retirement
- Why New General Investment Account Tax Rates Are Going To Be Damaging
- Why Residential Property Still Belongs in Your Investment Portfolio — Even After the Renters’ Rights Act
- Why Selling to “Protect” Your Portfolio Is Often the Worst Move You Can Make
- Why You Can’t Rely On Dividends For Your Retirement Income
- Why You Should Invest Even If You Have All The Money You’ll Ever Need
- Work and childcare balance
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- You Don’t Need Perfect Timing To Be A Successful Investor
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- You May Soon Have To Pay Tax On Your Savings
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Pension Planning
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- 5 Benefits Of Consolidating Your Pensions
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- Are Pension Funds Safe?
- Avoiding The Pension Lifetime Allowance Test At Age 75
- Budget – March 2020
- Can Pensions Be Inherited?
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- Changes Coming To Fix NHS Pension ‘Crisis’
- Claiming A Deceased Parent’s Pension
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- Contributing To A Pension After Retirement
- CPI For Annual Allowance Calculation
- Dealing With The Challenges of Pension Drawdown
- Defined Benefit Pension Death Benefits: What Really Happens When You Die?
- Defined Benefit Pension Transfer Fees
- Defined Benefit Pension Transfer Time Limits
- Defined Benefit Pensions and the Lifetime Allowance
- Defined Benefit Pensions And The State Pension Reduction
- Defined Benefit Transfer Values Hit Record Highs
- Defined Contribution Pensions vs Defined Benefit
- Don’t Make This Huge Mistake With Your Pension Lump Sum
- Earliest Age Your Pension Can Be Taken
- Even John Lewis Can’t Afford Their Final Salary Pensions
- Five Reasons To Consolidate Your Pensions
- GPs And The Lifetime Allowance
- Growth vs Income Funds in retirement
- How Investment Benchmarks Help You Understand Your Pension Performance
- How Pension Flexi-Access Drawdown Can Unlock Early Retirement Freedom
- How The Government’s Borrowing Costs Will Be Crushing People’s Retirements AGAIN
- How To Choose A Safe Pension Withdrawal Rate
- How to deal with your finances after your partner’s death
- How to Find Out What Income You Could Get from Your Pension
- How to hold physical gold in a SIPP (and whether you should)
- How To Invest Your Pension Money
- How To Sort Out Your Old Pensions
- Inheriting A Pension
- Investment Risk In Retirement
- Is It Safe To Have All Your Pensions In One Place?
- Is It Still The Right Time To Transfer Your Gold Plated Pension?
- Is My SIPP Safe?
- Is Now Still a Good Time to Transfer a Defined Benefit Pension?
- Is Now The Time To Secure Your Pension Income Based On Annuity Rates Today?
- Is The UK State Pension Heading For Means Testing?
- Just How Flexible Is Pension Drawdown?
- Labour Scrap Re-Introduction Of The Pension Lifetime Allowance – What Now?
- LISA vs Pension When Gifting To Children
- Managing Your Pension – 5 Common Pension Mistakes
- Navigating Early Retirement Reduction Tables for Your Pension
- New Pension IHT Rules
- Offshore Bonds in Trust: A Smart Way to Beat Pension IHT
- Pension Contributions And The 50% Return
- Pension Increase Exchange (PIE)
- Pensions After Death – Easing The Pain
- Pensions and Inheritance Tax: A New, Complex Era from April 2027
- Shielding Your Pension from Inheritance Tax
- Should You Still Invest Your Pension In The UK Stock Market?
- Should You Take Your Pension Tax Free Cash Now?
- Should You Use Your Pension to Invest in Property? What You Need to Know
- State Pension Tax
- Taking Pension Tax Free Cash In Phases
- Taking The Lump Sum Option From Your Defined Benefit Pension
- Taking Your Pension Early To Avoid The Lifetime Allowance Charge
- Tax On Pension Drawdown – Messy Tax Codes
- The £800m Higher Rate Tax Relief Scandal
- The Age You Can Take Your Defined Benefit Pension
- The Best Investment Strategy for Your Pension at Every Stage of Life
- The Best Way To Avoid Any Rises In National Insurance Payments
- The Costly Pension Mistake That Could Leave Your Family With a Massive Tax Bill
- The Dangers Of Pension Drawdown
- The Hidden Power of Pension Annuity Value Protection: Should You Use It?
- The Hidden Problem With Pension Annuities: The Death Benefits
- The Problem With Accessing Your Pension Whilst Still Working
- The Reason You May Not Get The Full State Pension
- The Three Most Likely Pension Changes Coming In The Budget 2024
- Those Most Impacted By The Tapered Annual Allowance
- Topping Up Your State Pension
- Transferring Your Defined Benefit Pension
- Trying To Get Defined Benefit Pension Advice
- Under 47? New Minimum Age For Pension Access Could Mean You Retire 2 Years Later Than Planned
- Using Your Pension To Buy A House For Your Child
- Watch Out For The Pension Tax Trap
- What Happens To Your Husband’s State Pension When He Dies
- What Happens To Your Pension When You Retire
- What Pension Will I Get?
- What To Do With Small Pension Pots
- What To Do With Your End Of Year Bonus
- When And How Is The Pension Annual Allowance Charge Paid?
- When Can You Take Your Pension?
- When You Might Pay Inheritance Tax On A Pension
- Where Pension Funds Invest
- Why Company Pension Contributions Are Better Than Personal Contributions
- Why It’s Nearly Impossible To Transfer A Defined Benefit Pension
- Why Labour’s Pension Megafunds Are A Bad Idea
- Why Now Is The Time To Re-Start Pension Contributions
- Why Pension Drawdown Doesn’t Mean a Lifetime of Tax Returns
- Why Taking Your Pension Tax-Free Lump Sum After Age 75 Could Save Your Family Thousands (From April 2027)
- Why the “Retirement Age” on Your Pension Statement Is Not the Age You Can Access Your Pension
- Why the Right Investment Structure Matters More Than Anything Else in Your Pension
- Why You May Have Multiple Pension Pots In Drawdown
- Why You Might Not Get A Full State Pension Even With 35 Years National Insurance Contributions
- Why You Might Transfer A Defined Benefit Pension For An Annuity
- Why You Might Want to Hold More Than One Private Pension
- Why You Should Keep Your Inherited Pension In A Pension
- Why You Should Not Defer Your State Pension
- You Can Still Pay Into A Pension After Taking A Lump Sum
Protection Planning
- 10 Ways To Be Financially Prepared For Your Death
- 4 Reasons Why You Might Still Need Life Insurance In Retirement
- A Gifting Strategy That Avoids Inheritance Tax And More
- Do You Have A Death Box?
- Events That Make A Will Invalid
- Have you got a bank Will?
- Helping Locum Doctors Build A Bigger Bank Balance
- How To Gift A Critical Illness Policy To Your Children
- How To Stop Being Declined Insurance
- It’s The Time Of Gifting (To Avoid IHT)
- Leaving Everything In Order
- New Long Term Care Funding – Why Losing Your Home Is Still A Possibility
- Pay Zero With This Little Extra Inheritance Tax Advice
- Paying Inheritance Tax Correctly Before HMRC Investigate
- What Happens To Your Dog When You Die
- Why you should make a Will
Retirement Planning
- 10 Perks of Being Retired
- 3 Phases of Retirement Spending
- 3 Ways To Assess The Investment Risk You Should be Taking
- 5 Different Proven Investment Strategies
- 7 Steps To Get Retirement Ready
- A Secure Retirement Income Whilst Still Investing
- A super charged investment top up
- A Tax Free Income Of £47,600 With These Tax Allowances
- A way around Inheritance Tax
- An Insurance Return Could Be Better Than An Investment Return In Retirement
- Be aware of the pension contribution limit
- Brexit And Your Retirement
- Budgeting for Retirement
- Claiming tax back on your pension contributions
- Do I have to pay tax if I inherit a pension?
- Focusing On Income Not Capital In Retirement
- Has Covid Changed Retirement?
- How long will retirement savings last?
- How pension drawdown works
- How The Budget 2021 Impacts Your Retirement Planning
- How to calculate the pension lifetime allowance
- How to choose the best investments for retirement
- How Will The National Debt Be Repaid After Coronavirus?
- Investment Risk Just Before Retirement
- Keeping Fit In Retirement
- Maximising Your Retirement Income
- Pension fees and charges
- Pension options for the self-employed
- Pension tax free lump sum on retirement
- Retirement Age and Life Expectancy
- Retirement planning checklist
- Retirement planning starts with this easy step
- Retiring After A Redundancy – This Trick Could Boost Your Pension Pot
- Rules on qualifying for the State Pension
- Stopping my grandad from being ripped off
- Sustainable Pension Withdrawals
- Taking pension early
- The Perfect Retirement Age
- The simple pros and cons of transferring a Final Salary Pension
- The Worst Case Scenario For Your Retirement Portfolio
- Tidying up and understanding your pensions
- What An Investment Risk Scale Really Means
- What happened in the Budget 2017
- What happens to my Final Salary Pension if the company goes bust?
- What is a SIPP?
- What is the Pension Protection Fund (PPF)?
- What Retirement Income You Need
- What Retirement Money Should You Spend First?
- When You Don’t Pay Tax In Retirement
- Why It’s Best To Retire At The End Of The Tax Year
- Why You Can’t Rely On Dividends Alone
- Why You Should Consider A Phased Retirement
- Working And Receiving A Pension
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- A super charged investment top up
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- Best ISA Option For You
- Cashing In Your Pension
- Changes Coming To Fix NHS Pension ‘Crisis’
- Claiming tax back on your pension contributions
- Defined Benefit Pensions and the Lifetime Allowance
- Earning a decent return on your cash savings
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- Helping Locum Doctors Build A Bigger Bank Balance
- Ignore ‘hot stock’ picks
- Investing for those that don’t have time
- Investing rules of thumb
- Investment in Shares or Mutual Funds
- Investment Risk Just Before Retirement
- Is it still a good time to invest?
- Just say yes
- LISA vs Pension When Gifting To Children
- My current 3 favourite business travel apps
- Organising money priorities
- Pension options for the self-employed
- Pension tax free lump sum on retirement
- Those Most Impacted By The Tapered Annual Allowance
- Tidying up and understanding your pensions
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- What is Bitcoin all about?
- What is the FTSE100?
- What is the Pension Protection Fund (PPF)?
- What REAL Financial Advisers do
- When And How Is The Pension Annual Allowance Charge Paid?
- When Can You Take Your Pension?
- Where To Invest After Maxing Out ISA and Pension
- Where to start with investing
- Why credit cards are good
- Why Now Is The Time To Re-Start Pension Contributions
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