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While everyday financial pressures can make saving challenging, it’s imperative not to neglect your pension and retirement plan. Diligent planning at the earliest opportunity can make all the difference between enjoying a comfortable retirement and enduring a regretful one. After all, you reap what you sow. Avoiding retirement regrets  Over the years, research has highlighted […]

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that more people than ever are working beyond age 65.    One of the stranger economic statistics of recent times has been the strength of employment markets on both sides of the Atlantic. For all the talk of an impending recession and the upward […]

There are many simple ways to cut expenditure and ease the bite of inflation.  The peak reading for inflation is likely to have been changed by the government’s September decision to introduce a ‘price cap’ of £2,500 on utility bills. Of course, the cap is no such thing – you could pay more than £2,500 […]

The worlds markets had an eventful end to the third quarter, contributed in part to the UK’s ‘mini Budget’.   The third quarter of 2022 ended in tumoil for UK investors. The third Chancellor of the quarter, Kwasi Kwarteng, produced a ‘mini-Budget’ on Friday 23 September that sent shock waves around the world throughout the […]

The pandemic taught us many things, but some of them are already slipping away. The Covid-19 pandemic is now beginning to fade from the collective consciousness, despite the best efforts of the Omicron variants to snare those who had previously avoided the virus. It is understandable that we do not want to linger on that […]