Category: Lifestyle

  • Ageing – A Problem Facing Us All

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    What’s the solution to the ageing dilemma? As we grow older and live longer as a nation it puts strain on the state and on our own resources. According to the 2017 book The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott half the babies born in…

  • Johnson pledge to cut tax

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    Would you believe it? Tory leader contender Boris Johnson pledged to cut income tax bills for those earning more than £50,000 a year, if he wins the race to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister. Speaking to the Telegraph, Johnson said he would use the money currently set aside for a no-deal Brexit to raise…

  • Should I Stay or Should I Go

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    Oh dear, dear. I have to confess right here to being old enough to remember those words of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones back in the eighties. Maybe they echo some of the thoughts which have been going on in Mrs May’s head of late although she doesn’t quite strike me as being a fan…

  • What the papers said this last weekend

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    The Sunday Times reports a CBI warning that growth in business activity has virtually ground to a halt over the last 3 months as a result of what it terms ‘Brexit limbo’ There’s an interesting profile of Andrew Formica, head of Jupiter Asset Management, who is out to confound the naysayers, while James Timpson, CEO…

  • Almost £200m lost through investment fraud in 2018

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    According to an article in “MoneyAge”, a News Sheet for IFAs, victims of investment fraud lost over £197m in 2018 as scammers use increasingly “sophisticated tactics” to persuade people to invest their savings, according to new figures from Action Fraud. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning to potential victims of investment scams today,…

  • Five things Investors should not fear this year

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    Terence Moll is a chief strategist at Seven Investment Management and a well respected voice in financial circles. In an Article he wrote recently in New Model Adviser, he muses over why investors should not be worried? He thinks fears are exaggerated – and they actually have plenty to be cheerful about. Here are five…