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This is your life – look after it

May 8, 2022

Only a quarter of Brits have life insurance or critical illness cover policies in place, despite two in five knowing someone who has had a serious accident or been too ill to work, a study² has found Compared to protection for our homes (55%), cars [...]

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Get your ducks in a row for the 2022/23 tax year

April 20, 2022

Effective tax planning strategies can help shield you from the chill this spring. While there’s minimal change in the operation and structure of the taxation of UK individuals in the 2022/23 tax year, the ‘no change’ element is significant. Excluding the 1.25 percentage point increase [...]

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Getting a mortgage when retired – what you need to know

March 28, 2022

Becoming a homeowner later in life is not uncommon these days, but is it possible to get a mortgage if you’re retired? All the fives It’s true that getting a mortgage becomes a lot harder after the age of 55. First because it is more [...]

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Spring Forecast Statement

March 24, 2022

Following the Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Statement, we have produced an overview of the key points. Click here to read more.

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Making savings for your children work

March 10, 2022

Many parents are keen to give their children a flying start financially by putting aside money throughout their childhood. Mums have been shown to be more likely to take the lead in this area, with most savings being held in cash products, such as cash [...]

Pensions

Gen up to protect yourself from pension scams

March 3, 2022

With pension scam losses totalling millions each year, good news came in November, when new regulations came into force to protect pension savers and stop suspicious scam transfers. From 30 November 2021, pension trustees and scheme managers received new powers to intervene. Previously pension providers [...]

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Thomson Tyndall – Market Update

February 24, 2022

With the caveat that short term prediction in volatile markets is generally a fool’s errand, we thought it might be helpful to provide a few comments on markets following the news that the tensions between Russia and Ukraine have, today, escalated into an invasion of [...]

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Consumers and investors tune in to tackle climate change

February 10, 2022

More than half (57%) of consumers want their pension to be invested responsibly to help tackle climate change, but only one in seven people who have a pension have taken steps to invest it responsibly¹. Climate change and the environment are bigger concerns for most [...]

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Thomson Tyndall – Market Update

January 31, 2022

In spite of a generally favourable outlook for most of the global economy, with the diminishing impact of Covid and the lockdown measures designed to curb its spread, financial markets have been quite volatile since the start of 2022. Globally equity markets have dropped c.7% [...]

Investments

Preserving your retirement from the risk of mental decline

January 28, 2022

Many of us can now look forward to a longer retirement, due to increased life expectancy, however this unfortunately comes at a cost. The prevalence of age-related cognitive decline is on the rise, which could leave us vulnerable to costly financial errors. There are nearly [...]