Worldwide 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

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

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

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.

DON’T BELIEVE ALL YOU HEAR! It’s one of those sayings that’s worth remembering when listening to politicians, especially those with financial power. George Osborne gained deserved respect for his performance as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Coalition years; his pension’s revolution marked him down as politician of vision, perhaps even a future Prime Minster.

Don’t expect anyone, even your friendly Independent Financial Adviser (IFA), to come up with all the answers straight away to George Osborne’s first Conservative budget. The ramifications of the chancellor’s many pronouncements will only be fully understood once various detailed supporting documents and consultation papers have been published. That’s not a particular problem as many