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Financial Planning, Investment, Long Term Care, Mortgage, Pension
This week we had the spectacle of Theresa May being given a P45 while the set fell apart around her during her Conservative Party conference speech.
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Quantitative Uneasing and Your Money
By Worldwide Financial Planning
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Financial Planning, Pension
QE is normally introduced after interest rate stimuli fails. For example, the Bank of England lowers rates which lowers your, and companies’ mortgages and loans and might encourage you to borrow to spend.
Furthermore, with poor interest rates you believe you are better doing something with your cash, so you buy ‘stuff’ or stock market equities, or a house to achieve a better yield.
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CORBYN GAINING MOMENTUM AS KIM AND TRUMP ESCALATE TENSIONS
While a proposal to introduce rent controls was widely criticised, other measurers such as a land tax have long been pushed by policy experts to boost house building.
Another call to tax big business and spend more on public services will likely go down well with the country at large as well.
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The Forgotten Children in Company Pensions
By Worldwide Financial Planning
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Financial Planning, Pension
In June, the regulatory body governing pension transfers (FCA) scrapped the starting position for transferring a company pension (Defined Benefit Scheme).
The starting position used to be that it was always unsuitable.
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Is my company pension guaranteed?
By Worldwide Financial Planning
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Financial Planning, Long Term Care, Pension
In simple terms, your company pension is guaranteed by your company. The company invests its money (a fund) to provide the best returns and meet its liabilities to you. If it doesn’t do well enough, it has to make up the shortfall, unlike a personal pension (where you are transferring to) where YOU have to make up the shortfall.
The test flight is undoubtedly a defiant response to the to the additional sanctions imposed on the dysfunctional state this week by the UN in response to their earlier nuclear test.
Less alarming domestic developments come in the form of the Bank of England's latest decision not to raise interest rates yet again.