End of Year Tax Tips

Planning for the end of a Tax Year can often be overlooked during periods of extreme volatility in stock markets, but this should not be the case.

A Pound for a Euro

As well as the collapse of investment markets, the value of the Pound against the Euro also plummeted, to the extent that we are now at virtual parity, making all of our forthcoming European holidays very much more expensive.

House prices and interest rate cuts where are we now

Two of the most often asked questions from clients are...

Pensions Are they still worth it

As the great economist John Maynard Keynes once observed; ‘the way out of recession is to spend your way out of it’ (Enter Gordon Brown); but, we are all battening down the hatches and saving more, which is bad for a recovery in the economy, but good for our pensions and future income in retirement requirements.

Market Report January 2009

Not only did 2008 bring us abysmal investment market performance, it also brought us Banking failures (Lehman Brothers and others); corporate failures (Woolworths, Adams and others); and to cap it all, it bought the World’s biggest fraud, when the Bernard Madoff scam was unearthed in the United States, with an alleged $50 Billion price tag.

No New Year Resolutions

Back in October we identified two possible scenarios for the global economy as we entered the new year.

January 2009 Market Update - Commodities

It will come of little surprise to readers to hear that commodity prices have retreated markedly since their peaks in the summer of 2008.