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Women take the lead opening JISAs

October 16, 2024

Have you opened a Junior Individual Savings Account (JISA) for your child? If so, it’s a great financial priority to support long-term savings goals for the children in your family. Research has highlighted that women have led the way on opening JISAs every year since [...]

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Autumn retirement round-up

October 10, 2024

Several retirement reports have hit the headlines recently with a consistent message: if you want a comfortable retirement, you should plan early and be flexible. Could a phased retirement approach work for you? Research from Standard Life¹ suggests a ‘gradual transition’ into retirement could be [...]

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Financial considerations delaying divorce

September 10, 2024

New research¹ has found that one in ten married people in the UK have considered splitting up but decided against it, with the financial burden of divorce most commonly given as the main reason. A challenging time While respondents to the survey did cite other [...]

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Using your pension to pass on wealth

September 3, 2024

If you thought your pension was just your retirement savings then think again. As well as ensuring your financial certainty when you want to stop working, a pension is a great way to support future generations. This is because defined contribution pensions are one of [...]

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Residential Property Review – August 2024

August 29, 2024

First cut in Bank Rate in over four years The Bank of England has reduced Bank Rate for the first time in more than four years. The rate is now 5%, having been held at 5.25% since August 2023, after 14 consecutive increases. The Monetary [...]

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Don’t overlook a mid-life protection review

August 16, 2024

Research¹ has found that people in their 30s and 40s could be slipping through the net when it comes to protection cover. The data highlights that those in this age bracket are more likely to have inadequate protection cover for their mortgage, should the worst [...]

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Limiting ‘home bias’

August 8, 2024

Does your investment portfolio suffer from too much ‘home bias’? It’s natural for investors to stay close to home when thinking about investing, contemplating well-known UK companies or UK-focused funds rather than looking further afield. But if your portfolio becomes too heavily concentrated in the [...]

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ISAs: a quarter century strong

August 2, 2024

Since being launched on 6 April 1999 as successor to PEPs and TESSAs, the Individual Savings Account (ISA) has become an integral part of the UK savings and investment landscape. Worth celebrating By any measure, the humble ISA has been a huge success. The latest [...]

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Residential Property Review – July 2024

July 25, 2024

A new Labour government – what next for housing? Following the Labour Party’s landslide election win, what changes might be in store for the UK housing market? In the Prime Minister’s introduction to the King’s Speech on 17 July, Sir Keir Starmer stated “Too many [...]

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Thomson Tyndall Investment Thoughts Q3 2024

July 23, 2024

Over the first half 2024, we have enjoyed what has felt like a normalisation in economic data and investment markets. Most economies have seen improving inflation readings and steady economic growth, indicating that the interest rate hikes of 2022/23 are doing their job without crashing [...]

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