“JUST when you thought it was safe to go back into the water” was the tag used when Jaws 2 was released three years after the original 1975 Hollywood blockbuster. Many investors are feeling the same way at the moment after the first serious stock market crisis since the financial collapse and recession of 2008.
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NOBODY HAS IT ALL
By Dave Larkins
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Financial Planning
When you’re young, you look envious at those older – as the years pass, you start looking back in the same way at those younger! Recently, the “Baby Boomers” have been hailed as the generation that had it all.
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
By Peter Cunio
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Financial Planning
VERY LITTLE of our life doesn’t involve some form of financial participation, whether it’s work, rest or play. Nothing much is free anymore; even water is more expensive than milk these days in a supermarket. There’s an old saying “where there’s muck, there’s brass (money)” – nowadays, a more appropriate phrase might be “where’s there’s
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PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
By Robert Haymes
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Mortgage
EVERYONE knows that having children is a lifetime commitment. That commitment is growing and growing because we are all living longer. There’s the emotional responsibility that never goes away, even though young Jack is now aged 35 and married with two kids. Worrying is part of parenthood and you have to learn to live with
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WILLING VICTIM
By Nicole Martin
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Financial Planning
IT’S difficult enough keeping any eye on your money while you’re living, but now it seems as though that will extend far into the afterlife! The news that the Court of Appeal has overturned the specific requests inscribed in a will so that a daughter can inherit some of her mother’s estate has led to
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KEEPING PROMISES
By Darren McKeever
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Inheritance Tax, Pension
The Tories continue to promise that “we are in this together” sharing the highs and the lows of the recovering recession. There are those who will have been sceptical from the start that our “lords and masters” were going through the same austere hardship that was being inflicted on the masses.