Archive for 2012

2012 Review

Friday, December 21st, 2012

It’s been an interesting year for the financial world. 2012 started out with storms in the Eurozone and fears that the Euro itself was possibly facing its demise. 12 months on and the Euro is still very much with us, although there are still choppy waters around the continent. France in particular experienced shocks this [...]

Tags: Bank of England, banks, Eurozone, FTSE100, inflation, interest rates

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Inheriting a Problem

Friday, December 21st, 2012

In his recent Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the current freeze on the Inheritance tax threshold (otherwise known as the nil rate band) would be raised in 2014/15. In April 2014, the Inheritance tax threshold will rise by just over 1% from £325,000 to £329,000. By any stretch of the imagination, it’s not [...]

Tags: Inheritance tax, Will writing, Wills

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Worldwide recognised for work to improve financial literacy

Monday, December 17th, 2012

A firm of independent financial advisers from Cornwall has been recognised for its work with young people.

Tags: Worldwide Financial Planning

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 14th December 2012

Monday, December 17th, 2012

It’s a week closer to Christmas and the temperatures are plummeting across the UK, coupled with more stormy weather. And to accompany the weather, there have also been a few storms of a financial nature blowing across the UK and Europe. Read below to find out more! As always, if you have any queries, call [...]

Tags: Barclays, mortgages, Northern Rock

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2013 Financial Resolutions

Friday, December 14th, 2012

With Christmas imminent and New Year just around the corner, many of us are turning our thoughts to making resolutions, with health and wealth-based resolutions being the most popular. The problem for many of us is often that the New Year starts and the resolutions remain in the distance. Before we know it, it’s February [...]

Tags: independent financial advice

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Autumn Statement 2012

Monday, December 10th, 2012

The 2012 Autumn Statement – Good News or Bad? In short, for most of us, it held a mixture of good and bad news. There were announcements that will affect individuals and also companies, with money being taken in some places, given back in others. There was a fairly mixed bag of announcements in the [...]

Tags: Inheritance tax, ISAs, nil rate band, pensions

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 7th December 2012

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Snow is in the air! Welcome to the first financial news round up for December 2012, with reports of flurries of snow around the country. Be careful out there and keep warm! It’s been another busy financial week with Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn statement on the 5th. We’ve got all the key points from that [...]

Tags: banks, business finance, Inheritance tax, ISAs, tax, tax relief

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The future for your interest only mortgage

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

As we talked about in last week’s article, interest only mortgages seem likely to become a thing of the past. For first time buyers or anyone taking on a new mortgage, it’s not the best news, but it’s potentially even worse news for anyone who has already taken out an interest only mortgage. Because as [...]

Tags: interest rates, mortgages

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 30th November 2012

Friday, November 30th, 2012

Welcome to another of your regular financial news round ups, still taking shelter from the wind and rain. We hope you’ve stayed safe among the storms battering the UK at present. There have also been storms of a metaphorical kind in the financial world, with change at the top of Bank of England and warnings [...]

Tags: banks, mortgages, Nationwide, Royal bank of Scotland, VAT

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Mortgage Adviser Makes His BBC TV Debut!

Monday, November 26th, 2012

One of Worldwide’s mortgage advisers will be making his television debut tonight (Monday, November 26) on BBC One. Ronan Marrion, who is based in our Wadebridge office, will be speaking on the channel’s Inside Out programme at 7.30pm. Here’s the link to the show on iplayer, which will be available for a limited time. He [...]

Tags: mortgages, Worldwide Financial Planning

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