Worldwide Financial Planning

Some advise that with rising life expectancy, it’s quite difficult to calculate how much liquid cash you will need over the years. It is truly a conversation with an Independent Financial Adviser around the implications of each and every decision and there’s no getting away from the boredom of that!

This week, Peak Pegasus, a US cargo ship full to the brim with soybeans, raced across the Northern Pacific to beat a 25 percent import duty on one of the States' most lucrative exports to China

If your savings return less than inflation, you are losing money. Of course if you take an income, you have that fall, on top of the impact of inflation. You can soon eradicate the value of your savings.

This week European leaders gathered in Brussels for the EU summit.

While we might have expected Brexit to be the main topic of discussion, most of the drama has centred on how to handle the large numbers of migrants coming across the Mediterranean.

Following last week’s column on the level of income you can take from your pension in retirement without eroding your capital, I’ll add some tips on how we might maintain your financial security by shoring up your pension values.

This week the government won a hard-fought compromise in its Brexit negotiations.