Today’s Blog

I agree with the thesis put forward in the following article http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/2012/03/27/comment/property-matters/bring-on-the-mansion-tax-KS1cyRn513svdJEIBhJ2OJ/article.html Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a real problem and a very inefficient tax....

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Fortune always favours the prepared! Now that the new tax year has started why not open your ISA now and pay into it when you can? That way you will not be one of the stories in the following article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17547402rnrnThis information is...

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I would really like to find out how large the percentage of Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) cases heard by the FOS are made against Independent Financial Advisors and the percentage of cases where the FOS has ruled against Independent Financial Advisors compared...

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I agree with the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) that pension projections should be simplified. Simplicity is an underrated virtue. Sometimes less is more for clients. If you bombard them with huge amounts of information they will become confused and absorb...

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Even though the fall in inflation is to be welcomed it is still far too high. Poor savers have borne a lot of the brunt of the economic mismanagement of our economy in finding relatively safe investments which pay the same let alone exceed the inflation rate. I look...