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  • The rise of stocks and shares ISAs

    • 30th June 2021
    • Posted by: shayne
    • Category: News
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    Low interest rates fuel spike in demand. After more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, many people have more disposable income than they’re used to. But with the Bank of England’s base rate of interest at a record low of 0.1% offering paltry incentives for saving in cash, increasing numbers of savers are turning towards

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  • Wealth Knowledge – June 2021

    • 3rd June 2021
    • Posted by: shayne
    • Category: Wealth Knowledge
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    Frenzied rush sees mortgage borrowing hit record high UK homeowners borrowed a record £11.8 billion more on mortgages than they repaid in March 2021. Figures from the Bank of England showed the net-borrowing level was the highest of any comparable month since records began in April 1993.  The previous record of £10.4bn was set in

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  • The pensions lifetime allowance

    • 2nd June 2021
    • Posted by: shayne
    • Category: Pension, Retirement
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    How might the big freeze affect you? Most people get nowhere near breaching the pensions lifetime allowance, but that’s likely to change over the next five years.  The lifetime allowance is currently £1,073,100. This is a limit on the amount of pension benefits you can withdraw from all of your pension schemes – whether as

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  • Can you afford to start a family?

    • 1st June 2021
    • Posted by: shayne
    • Category: Family
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    The full costs of raising children surprise many.  Moving out of your parents’ home for the first time, stepping onto the property ladder, getting married, and deciding to start a family are each big life events.  You’ll likely crunch some numbers when considering any of them but when it comes to starting a family, it’s

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