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Is inflation deflating? And is your adviser clued up?

Inflation is coming-down – only 6.8% and for the first time since 2021, lower than the increase in average pay (including bonuses etc). Food inflation is dropping even faster. Some of the reasons are ‘pigs in pythons’ – when a big increase a year ago drops-out of the figures. The next big hit will be...

State Pension set to see 8% rise if ‘triple lock’ promise holds

Millions receiving the State Pension could receive a ‘bumper’ rise yet again next year due to rising wages. Due to the ‘triple lock’, experts are predicting the annual State Pension could increase by up to £879 in April, 2024. This means pensioners would receive around £11,500 a year and the maximum flat rate State Pension would...

Anniversary time and awkward markets

Am not sure if I should be feeling old or not... am just passing the 38th anniversary of when for the first time I was sitting at my desk in the small office in my parents’ home in Georgeham, the first day of my business after I had given-up a promising career in mainstream...

Replacing your State Pension could cost a fortune

Recent news the State Pension booster scheme has been extended until 2025 is very welcome, but did you know it could cost you a small fortune to replace the full State Pension if you’re not eligible for it? Data from sharingpensions.co.uk published in June has shown it would cost just over £205,430 of pensions savings...

Kinder markets and when to move?

I took a couple of days’ break to attend our Daughter Esme’s graduation and the markets were good to us and there’s now one more NHS Doctor. Perhaps I need to take more time away if it helps so many of our investments rise in value...! It is interesting however – we try our hardest...

Probate delays adding extra costs for bereaved families

Families are seeing potential extra costs due to delays of up to several months before probate is granted after a death – but there are some things you can do to keep the costs down. A grant of probate is a legal requirement for anyone handling the estate of a deceased person, before any inheritance...

Odd markets, bubbles and opportunity

The markets have been continuing their sideways negativity, with some situations suffering ‘death by a thousand cuts’, as sentiment remains disillusioned. There are a few brighter spots this week, which is good but it’s easier for the marketmakers to mark things in red to try to drum-up trade than give optimism for the near...

Inflation and cautious optimism

So Sterling has hit its highest level against the Dollar since April last year and the Euro since August. Whilst it reduces the value of investors’ overseas’ assets, strength is positive and I can say ‘expected’ though whether it is on confidence in the UK and our economic prowess (or others’ regression) is hard...

State Pension booster scheme extended – but not forever

Pensions are back in the headlines again with the news the deadline to ‘boost’ your State Pension by as much as £55,000 has been extended. The booster plan from HMRC gives people the opportunity to buy the equivalent of up to 10 extra years’ of state pension if they have gaps in their National Insurance...

Markets in the first half of 2023

Elon Musk is basking in the light as the world’s richest man again as his investments have recovered some followers and at the same time the froth has blown-off the top of the French luxury brands’ world. We feel both stocks' and sectors’ sun-bathing remains transitory. So US inflation has slipped some more and the...

Is inflation deflating? And is your adviser clued up?

State Pension set to see 8% rise if ‘triple lock’ promise holds

Anniversary time and awkward markets

Replacing your State Pension could cost a fortune

Kinder markets and when to move?

Probate delays adding extra costs for bereaved families

Odd markets, bubbles and opportunity

Inflation and cautious optimism

State Pension booster scheme extended – but not forever

Markets in the first half of 2023

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