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For Uk residents and businesses. Learn how the financial news and changing events affect your finacial circumstances and future financial planning.
Recent Posts
Banks Win Court Fight On Overdraft Charges
High street banks have won their appeal at the Supreme Court over unauthorised overdraft charges. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the seven major banks and a building society, which had challenged High Court and Court of Appeal decisions that th...
Small Self Administered Scheme (SSAS) - An Alternative Source of Finance for Your Business
SSAS schemes are registered pension schemes that are not regulated by the financial services authority. The members are usually directors or key employees of the sponsoring employer. A SSAS, whilst subject to the same rules relating to contributions ...
Are You Contracted Out of The State Second Pension?
The government has decided to abolish contracting out of the State Second Pension (S2P) through money purchase pension schemes. This is likely to happen from 6 April 2012, but it could be later. Most money purchase pension annual statements contain ...
The State Pension
Whenever I begin to advise a client on their retirement planning it is important that I fully understand their current circumstances. This often involves dealing with various historic pension funds and benefits all (hopefully) packaged together in...
Early Retirement News
It has been a tradition of pension schemes for many years that the earliest age you can get at your pension benefits is age 50. However, about 3 years ago the rules changed to increase that age to 55 but the change was not immediate. In fact, the...
Fee Based Financial Advice Triumps Again
In our last post I showed you the figures on how much money we can save an aged 40’s couple with a reasonable household income and some existing financial planning. to prove fee based financial advice works accross the board I want you to con...

