Retirement Planning and Pensions It is news to some, but not all, that outside of their home, their greatest investment is the cumulative value of their pensions. There always seems to be much in the financial media about retirement planning – it’s increasingly unlikely that the...
Financial Advice - Green Investing On Friday 20th September, 4 million protesters worldwide took to the streets to demand action against the climate crisis. This was what may end up being the largest mass protest for action against the climate crisis in history. Yet, it began...
Income From Your Pension The introduction of pension freedoms has been a huge enabler for over-55s, allowing millions to draw income from their pensions flexibly. Pension freedoms offer the opportunity to transition into retirement by continuing to work with reduced hours beyond traditional retirement age.This emerging trend enables you...
Making Tax Saving Preparations in 2019 The end of the tax year is fast approaching…At this time of year, it’s a good time to start planning our tax affairs before the end of the tax year on 5 April. As you think about your future financial...
As the USA (still by far the world’s largest economy) emerges from recession with consistent good economic data, we should be set fair for improving conditions. It led us into the Credit Crunch…it should lead us out…But sadly our banks are tied up with this...
As a mortgage broker in London, we’re seeing a lot of clients asking us about Buy to Let mortgages across the city, looking to tap into the capital growth that’s returned to the property market. We’ve drawn up an example to show why these investments...
Expat Mortgages. Innovative Bridging Finance. Lending on student properties. Specialist criteria for the self employed and for contractor mortgages.It might seem surprising, but high street banks aren’t often keen to welcome customers from these lucrative markets.The scale of deposits available to major plc lenders, combined...
Feeding time at the bi-annual budget speech was in full force today. We got fed up pretty quickly of George’s often repeated clichés about ‘walking tall’, ‘work hard, save hard’ and the dreadfully cheesy ‘all in this together.’So we thought we’d look a little deeper than...
While the weather have finally gone grey, you might have missed the biggest financial news of past couple of weeks, some of the best mortgage rates we’ve seen in a while, so great they made us do a double take.The news tells us the London...
The stuffy end of the financial press have been behaving more like gossip columnists recently. We as mortgage advisers have been stumped as they tease speculation, scandal and the ever tedious ‘will they, won’t they’ narrative, plucked straight from the pages of Hello magazine.This ever...