Spring clean your finances for a sense of wellbeing
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. This newsletter takes a look […]
Finger on the pulse – Investing in uncertain times
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. This newsletter takes a look […]
Spring Budget – know your numbers
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. This newsletter takes a look […]
Housing news from the Budget
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. This newsletter takes a look […]
A helping hand in times of uncertainty
Following the election at the tail end of 2019, the ‘Boris bounce’ provided some long overdue momentum in the housing market, with data highlighting that buyer interest in some parts of the UK jumped over 60% year-on-year. Now the global COVID-19 outbreak has arrived, it’s difficult to quantify the likely impact on both the commercial […]
Key points from the Spring Budget
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. This newsletter takes a look […]
Make time for life’s big decisions
In the current climate, there is uncertainty in all of our lives with both health and financial concerns. However, while we are all understandably focusing on the here and now, it might be worth using this time to take a step back and review your long-term financial wellbeing as well. A recent study1 suggests many people […]
How ‘Leeds Permanent’ vanished – and a new ‘Leeds’ filled the void
If the former Leeds Permanent Building Society had ‘done what it says on the tin’ like that wood-stain in the old TV ad, the mortgage lender would surely still have branches on Britain’s high streets. Savers might even be able to invest in its Liquid Gold account, the ‘nice little earner’ promoted in another old […]
In the news
EMPTY NESTERS SITTING ON NEARLY £60,000 OF WASTED SPACE On average, over-50s in Britain have £56,574 worth of unused space standing empty in their properties (usually bedrooms belonging to children who have since flown the nest)3. Many are reluctant to downsize due to the nostalgia and memories linked to their family homes. LOWEST RISE IN […]
ATOMIC explosion!
Acronyms Take Over Many Investment Concepts From ASOS to Zoopla, acronyms, abbreviations and made-up names are everywhere in the digital age. It may seem like a phenomenon largely confined to online marketing and, though there has been an eruption of new monikers in that arena, the process of shortening or updating ordinary corporate names, regulators’ […]