Worldwide Financial Planning

GEORGE OSBORNE has been basking in the glow of his new “pension freedoms” that came into play earlier this year. The chancellor wasn’t finished with his “pensions revolution” declared at the July budget. “Pensions could be taxed like ISAs,” announced Osborne during his House of Commons speech. “You pay in from taxed income – and

“JUST when you thought it was safe to go back into the water” was the tag used when Jaws 2 was released three years after the original 1975 Hollywood blockbuster. Many investors are feeling the same way at the moment after the first serious stock market crisis since the financial collapse and recession of 2008.

When you’re young, you look envious at those older – as the years pass, you start looking back in the same way at those younger! Recently, the “Baby Boomers” have been hailed as the generation that had it all.

VERY LITTLE of our life doesn’t involve some form of financial participation, whether it’s work, rest or play. Nothing much is free anymore; even water is more expensive than milk these days in a supermarket. There’s an old saying “where there’s muck, there’s brass (money)” – nowadays, a more appropriate phrase might be “where’s there’s

EVERYONE knows that having children is a lifetime commitment. That commitment is growing and growing because we are all living longer. There’s the emotional responsibility that never goes away, even though young Jack is now aged 35 and married with two kids. Worrying is part of parenthood and you have to learn to live with

IT’S difficult enough keeping any eye on your money while you’re living, but now it seems as though that will extend far into the afterlife! The news that the Court of Appeal has overturned the specific requests inscribed in a will so that a daughter can inherit some of her mother’s estate has led to