Financial Planning, INFOgraphic, Long Term Savings, Retirement Planning
My Future Retirement, and How The UK Looks
I don’t know about you, but after a long week of watching the markets and discussing people’s futures, I find it hard not to dream about my own retirement. The golden age. Time to put my feet up and live the life that I have always dreamed of. Sadly, not one part of that dream […]
Expatriate, Long term Savings, Offshore Savings, Pensions, Retirement Planning, UK
Interest Rates Rise in Russia
In an effort to tackle inflation, Russia’s central bank has raised its interest rate to 10.5%, just six weeks after it raised the rate to 9.5% from 8%. The bank’s official website has also stated that it won’t stop there, confirming that it would continue raising the rate “in case of further aggravation of inflation […]
Pensions Under Pressure Because of Slow Economic Growth
Faltering economic growth and low investment returns are increasing the pressure on pension systems in developed countries in a fresh warning from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. We already have a problem with an ageing population, but that is being compounded by low investment returns, which is in part, due to low interest […]
Interest Rates, Long term Savings, QROPS, Retirement Planning, UK, UK Pensions
Low Productivity Biggest Threat to UK Economy
The “productivity puzzle”, and how it might resolve itself is the biggest threat to the UK’s economic recovery according to the head of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). Robert Chote said that the economy also faced uncertainty from the eurozone, and from other geopolitical pressures, but that the gap between increase output but decreased […]
BoE says Mortgage Holders Could Cope with Rise in Interest Rates
Headline reads: The majority of people with mortgages could cope with a rise in interest rates, the Bank of England has said. Small print reads: The assumption above is based on a 10% rise in household incomes. According to the Bank’s annual survey of household finances, just 4% of mortgage holders would need to take […]
The growth of house prices has slowed in the UK
According to the latest figures from Halifax, the annual growth of property in the UK had slowed to 8.2% in November compared with 8.8% in October. The lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that property prices were 0.4% higher last month than they were in October. The figures came on the same day that […]
UK Interest held back again!
UK interest rates have been held at 0.5 % for another month by the Bank of England. Additionally, it chose to preserve its quantitative easing programme, created to promote financing in the economy, at the £375bn current rate. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee has actually held prices at 0.5 % considering that March 2009 to […]
Financial Planning, International Mortgages, Regular Savings, Retirement Planning, Tax-free Growth
Is property a sound investment?
A question that I often face as a financial advisor is, “would I be better putting my money into property?” The answer is, that it very much depends on your personal circumstances and you should sit down with an advisor to discuss those circumstances in full. As a general rule of thumb, if you are […]
International Mortgages, Investments, Long term planning, Long term Savings, Property, Retirement Planning, UK
Financial Planning, Regular Savings, Retirement Planning, Tax-free Growth
[Infographic] The Retirement Outlook in the UK
Retirement always feels like a long way off, but how many of us daydream about what we might do when we reach that golden age? Whilst we might dream about what we could do in our retirement, how many of us think about, or plan for, how we might pay for that lifestyle once we […]
Expatriate, Future Planning, Offshore Savings, Retirement Planning, UK
Financial Planning, Pensions, QROPS, Retirement Planning, Tax Cut
UK Pension Update
A month ago the UK Chancellor, George Osborne, announced additional amendments to UK pension legislation to take effect from 6th April 2015. Whether you are living abroad, planning to live abroad or you intend to retire in the UK, you will feel the affects of these changes if you have a pension or pensions held […]
Pensions, QROPS, Retirement Planning, Tax Cuts, UK, UK Pensions
Financial Planning, Pensions, QROPS
Expat teachers make the most of QROPS (whilst it lasts)
Teachers from the UK are grabbing their final opportunity to transfer their pensions offshore before the door is permanently closed from April 2015. The public sector pension fund is severely depleted, threatening to shatter the retirement dreams of those who have worked at the forefront of British society for much of their lives. With the […]
