Worldwide Financial Planning

A with profits fund is simply where your capital is invested across a wide range of assets like cash, UK and International equities, property, government and corporate bonds (exactly like a managed fund does). The objective is to spread your risk.

Equity release plans allow you to borrow against your home (you’ll see I avoided the word release) either by a lump sum or as a regular income.

This week the fickle nature of economic forecasting was at the fore, with just a handful of words from Mark Carney enough to cloud crystal balls over the country.

Amazingly, BOMAD is now the 9th biggest mortgage lender in the UK and helps fund 26% of all UK proper transactions. It is no surprise that over 60% of those under 35 seek help from friends and family to help get on that property ladder.

This week volatility has remained, with fears of a trade war being replaced with fears of an actual war.

I’ve heard many statements regarding markets ‘going’ up, or ‘going’ down. As we’ve mentioned before, that can often lead to knee-jerk reactions where you jump a queue at completely the wrong time, and indeed this was covered in the last quarter for the same reason.