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October Investment Update

Our predictions for 2023 seem to have been “bang on the money”. Our October Investment Update provides background into our current investment thought ...

Autumn Budget Statement 2021

What does the Autumn Budget 2021 mean for you? In our comprehensive guide to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, we reveal the key announcements. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your situation – please contact us.

Options When Taking Your Pension

The purpose of these notes is to try and explain some of the common options available when you come to take your retirement benefits from a money purchase type pension plan.

Tax Treatment Of Pension Death Benefits

Recent changes to the rules for pensions have radically changed the approach of advisers with regard to pension savings. The following notes are designed to give our current views as to the options available to clients.

Which Pension Plan is Right For Me?

The following is a summary of the main pensions options available to most individuals. These are the savings options, when you want to take your pension benefits you need to consider the whole raft of different options available to you for drawing your pension.

What Is Risk & Much Do You Need?

If you are new to investing, perhaps the most difficult concept to get across is the relationship between risk and reward. These notes try and explain why risk is required (in almost all cases) to achieve long term goals.

The New Pension Regime

The following are some brief notes to help explain the changes to pensions and the provisional ideas behind them.

The Tax Treatment Of Pension Contributions

This article is designed to explain the Post 2011 (and 2015) regime as simply as we can. The rules are complicated and the rules for allowable contributions are different from the rules for tax relief on contributions, so please accept our comments as a guide only.