Reminder – tax year end

February 14, 2023
As the end of the tax year approaches, a prime consideration should be how external factors such as reduced or frozen allowances, together with high inflation, could impact your finances and what action you need to take before 5 April 2023. If you are affected [...]
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New year – check your protection

January 11, 2023
The start of a new year is a great opportunity to reassess your finances. In 2023, with difficult economic conditions causing cost-of-living difficulties for many, it is especially important to make sure everything’s in order. Protection is an essential part of long-term financial planning. The [...]
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Residential Property Review – December 2022

January 6, 2023
Demand drops amid economic uncertainty Activity is weakening across the sales market, according to the latest UK Residential Survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), which points to a challenging year ahead. The headline net balance for new buyer enquiries was -38% in [...]
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Thomson Tyndall Investment thoughts Q1 2023

January 5, 2023
Happy New Year! After three successive years where the performance of stock markets has been disconnected from the state of the real economy and with gloomy predictions of impending recessions this year, we are hopeful that markets will again buck the trend. Markets are thought [...]
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Residential Property Review – November 2022

December 1, 2022
More Stamp Duty changes in Autumn Statement Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on 17 November left housing out of the limelight, though it did include a commitment to keep the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) changes announced in the ‘mini-budget’ – for now. In September, [...]
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Autumn Statement 2022

November 22, 2022
There was much rumour ahead of the Autumn statement about how the hole in the UK finances will be fixed. Overall, there are several changes that will affect the finances of our clients. The government has mostly decided to fix the problem through stealth taxes [...]
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Controlling your investment emotions

November 18, 2022
While Rudyard Kipling may not have been thinking about investments when he penned his famous poem ‘If’, his words will certainly resonate with investors at the moment. The current investment landscape undoubtedly presents a challenge, even for experienced investors, but those who can keep their [...]
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Thomson Tyndall – Market Update

October 7, 2022
One of the best-known mantras in investing is ‘buy low and sell high’ and whilst this is an uncontroversial strategy it proves surprisingly difficult in practice. The first challenge is to judge when a high or low is occurring, as it is only with hindsight [...]
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Autumn Budget 2022 (Mini-Budget)

September 29, 2022
On Friday 23rd September the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced his “Growth Plan” aimed to kickstart the UK economy and which he claims to be the biggest tax cuts in a generation. As usual, our note is not intended to provide a commentary [...]
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How to value financial advice

June 21, 2022
In recent times the importance of expert financial advice has become greater than ever, as people seek reassurance that their pensions, investments and protection plans are being professionally looked after during uncertain times. Good financial outcomes are obviously important, but these can only be measured [...]
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