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Welcome to our Guide to Life Insurance Protection. It’s not easy to think about how you would secure your family’s future if you were no longer around. Understandably, we would…
Pooling money in one or more types of asset class Collective investment schemes – also known as ‘pooled investment funds’ – are a way of combining sums of money from…
Breach may impact on more than a million workers An estimated 1.25 million people are set to breach the current lifetime allowance (LTA) limit of £1.055 million for pension tax…
Making decisions on your behalf during your lifetime A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a legal document that allows you to appoint one or more people to make decisions…
Reaching Specific Life Goals Requires Planning If you don’t know where you want to go, you’ll find it tricky getting there! Investment goals cover everything from the old adage of…
Protecting, preserving or ultimately distributing wealth As part of your Inheritance Tax planning, you may want to consider putting assets in trust – either during your lifetime or under the…
Innovative Products To Be Created For Would Be Homeowners The Building Societies Association (BSA) have recently published a raft of recommendations as to how the mortgage industry can support the…
Continuing your support long into the future We spend our lives working to provide for ourselves and our loved ones. You may have a house or flat (in the UK…
Nearly £20 Billion Unclaimed Money And Growing The scale of the UK’s lost Pensions Mountain has been exposed by the largest study yet on the subject. The Pensions Policy Institute…
Minimising the financial impact on you and your loved ones What would life be like if you were diagnosed with a serious illness? Things could change very suddenly. You’d get…
Time to review your financial plans with a financial check-up? If you are aiming to retire within the next five years, it’s time to get into the mindset of considering…
2019/20 Key Changes You Need To Know In this guide we set out the main tax changes that apply to the 2019/20 tax year, which commenced on 6 April 2019.…