Category: pensions & retirement & savings & Uncategorized
Following publication of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) latest âPension Trends: Private Pensions 2013Ⲡpublication, which reported that the number of active members of occupational pension schemes has reached its lowest level since the 1950s, Scottish Widows is warning that the UK is heading for a âperfect stormâ of rising expectations for retirement.
Category: Economy & Market commentary & Uncategorized
Economics and politics often make uneasy bedfellows and so it was in August as the threatened US-led intervention in Syria depressed stock markets at the end of the month.
In the UK, David Cameron suffered defeat in the Commons, appearing to totally mis-judge the strength of backbench opposition. If thereâs one thing the financial markets donât like itâs uncertainty and in the last week of August the Prime Minister delivered precisely that.
Category: estate planning & executors & home & Uncategorized & Wills
A lot of people are being named as executors on wills of their close ones, however, for many it is often unclear what are the duties of executors and what does it all involve? For this reason we published this short list of the main duties of will executors:
Category: Uncategorized
As we approach the end of the summer months, those clients lucky enough to have children will once again be waving them off to school, at the end of what can be a very expensive period for parents.
Category: Uncategorized
A report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), says that up to 236,000 pension savers with Equitable Life, which collapsed in 2000, or one in five policyholders, might not be traced before what it calls an âarbitraryâ deadline of March 2014 for the Government compensation scheme.
Category: Uncategorized
According to a spokesperson for the CPS, the Crown Prosecution Service, most of us pay our taxes and pay on time. Figures from HMRC suggest that in 2011-2012, 93% of tax due was paid.
However, the CPS recognises that there are people who dishonestly and fraudulently evade tax. They choose to hide their income and wealth to evade tax, claim tax relief to which they are not entitled and subvert the tax and excise systems to make money for themselves.
