Archive for 2011
Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 23rd December 2011
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Week ending 23rd December 2011 Welcome to Worldwide’s final financial news round-up of 2011! It’s been a difficult year for the financial sector and the economy, with wild fluctuations in the markets and continuing uncertainty in the Eurozone. The US, too, suffered the humiliation of a credit downgrade by one of the ‘big three’ ratings [...]
Tags: foreign currency, FTSE100, pensions, tax
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 16th December 2011
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Week ending 16th December 2011 Christmas is just around the corner, but good news in the financial world is still in short supply. Unemployment up, retail sales down. But the good news for some is that Mary Portas is championing the cause of the High Street with her report on the state of Britain’s shops. [...]
Tags: banks, car insurance, FTSE100, stock market
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Worldwide Appoints Employee Benefit Specialist
Monday, December 19th, 2011
An award-winning Cornish firm of independent financial advisers has expanded its team to allow it to increase its offering to the corporate market. Worldwide Financial Planning, which has offices in Truro and Wadebridge, has welcomed employee benefit specialist, Dean Laley, on board. Mr Laley has spent the last 20 years working in London working for [...]
Tags: Employee benefits, Worldwide Financial Planning
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Long Term Care Costs
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Long Term Care Costs – Why Where You Live Makes a Difference Two weeks ago we wrote about long term care costs and funding. One of the subjects we mentioned in our article was the contribution to nursing care costs that some people are eligible to receive. This is an area where many people who [...]
Tags: long term care, long term care costs, property
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The St Mawgan’s Eccentric Gentlemen’s Pram Push for Charity
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Sunday the 11th December saw the St Mawgan’s Eccentric Gentlemen’s Mutual Association take part in the annual St Mawgan’s Pram Push Event. Worldwide’s Director Neil Chamberlain, himself an Eccentric Gentleman of St Mawgan, took part as usual. He and his team dressed as pharaohs and pushed a pyramid shaped pram. We were all delighted that [...]
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UK Pension Fund
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Doom, Gloom and Taxes, and your UK Pension Fund The days are short, the economic recovery seems uncertain and Christmas is fast approaching. Amidst all the gloom and bad news a discussion on death and taxes with one of our clients didn’t seem inappropriate and the proverb attributed to Benjamin Franklin one of the Founding [...]
Tags: funds, investments, pensions, retirement, saving for retirement, savings
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 9th December 2011
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Week ending 9th December 2011 A bad week for banks this week, with a hefty fine for HSBC and Barclays facing a lawsuit. The Bank of England meanwhile stayed static on interest rates and the amount of Quantitative Easing and George Osborne stated his confidence in governor Mervyn King. In the real world, however, a [...]
Tags: Bank of England, banks, Barclays, FTSE100, Independent Financial Advisers
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Long Term Care Planning
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Protect Your Property from Long Term Care Costs The subject of long term care is an emotional one for many people. It’s also very much a financial subject. Long term care can be expensive. There is no getting away from that. However, by taking the right advice and having the facts, it doesn’t have to [...]
Tags: long term care, long term care costs, property
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 2nd December 2011
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Week ending 2nd December 2011 This was the week of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, much of which had been leaked before the official statement. Some good news for drivers and commuters, relatively that is, but refusal to continue the stamp duty ‘holiday’ for first time buyers caused dismay amongst many. Elsewhere, the FTSE100 bounced [...]
Tags: budget, FTSE100, pensions, property
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The Pension Geek’s Pop Quiz
Monday, November 28th, 2011
The Pension Geek’s Pop Quiz. Welcome to the Worldwide Pensions Pop Quiz! Want to know more about pensions? Worried about how you can fund yours? Test your knowledge of pensions, and pensions-related songs, against our Pension Geek’s and find out the facts along the way! “Will you still feed me when I’m 64?” In the [...]
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