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In the Spring of last year retirement specialist LV= produced a report looking at the future of long term care in the UK. With increased life expectancy, LV= predicted that the number of people needing care – either in their own home or in specialist retirement homes – would surge by the year 2025, reaching 1.1 million, an increase of 30% on the current figure of 840,000.
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Politics seems to impact more and more on economics – and somehow, always at the end of the month.
December ended with the last minute deal which averted the Fiscal Cliff in the US; January with Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy denying allegations of secret payments and at the end of February there were yet more problems in the US – and an election in Italy.
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All the news and media hype about investment banking gets many of us talking about the unfair distribution of wealth, with the seemingly rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
We are probably less aware of another dimension to the wealth picture – that of the changes and effects over time, where concern for the legacy we leave for following generations has become buried beneath our preoccupation with how to live well now.
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Once upon a time it was all so simple. Nothing could be safer than the UK banks. They were the cornerstone of every fund manager’s income portfolio. Do you want to build your financial planning on shares that would protect you against market fluctuations and deliver a steadily increasing dividend income? Sober, well-run, cautious businesses that the rest of the world could learn from… Look no further than the UK banking system.
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We now know in early 2013, that the squeeze on living standards in the UK will be longer and deeper than projected this time last year. Average wages are not expected to rise in real terms until late 2014, after a period of stagnation and decline.
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A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) gives another individual the legal authority to look after specific aspects of your affairs, should you lose the capacity to do so. There are two types of Lasting Power of Attorney, one relating to health and welfare matters and one about property and financial affairs. When appointing someone to have lasting power of attorney, you can choose to make that person (or more than one person) have the LPA power and responsibility in one or both areas.
