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The New Retirementality For many, the phrase “retirement planning” has become limited to the planning done in the years leading up to retirement. When you consider that your retirement could last for 30 to 40 years, it’s easy to see that your planning won’t end once you transition out of the work force. Chances are that the things you want…
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Time for reflection… let’s look at the performance of the largest 750 companies listed on the UK stockmarket; FTSE All-Share Index from February 1955 to June 2011. Investors can draw two lessons. First, since 1955, bull markets in the FTSE All-Share Index have lasted longer than bear markets and delivered gains that are disproportionately greater than the bear market losses. Second, the importance…
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The Junior ISA is a tax free account aimed specifically at UK resident children under age 18 who didn’t qualify for a Child Trust Fund (CTF). This also includes children born before the CTF was introduced on 1 September 2002 to ensure that they don’t miss out. Like the CTF, the child will own the account but will be unable to…
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He is no longer with us, and the world is poorer for it. A restless college dropout, he founded a wildly successful company whose innovative products touched millions of lives. He was a brilliant, dictatorial, and cantankerous leader, relentlessly pushing his staff to solve one impossible problem after another. He had no use for conventional market research, and trusted his…
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In the News – Scotsman Legal Pages Publish on Monday 17 October 2011 FOR a qualified solicitor, Ian Muirhead is not terribly impressed by the business skills of lawyers. As the managing director of SIFA (Solicitors Independent Financial Advice), Muirhead is well placed to comment. “Most solicitors aren’t numerate, which makes them bad business managers,” he says – and he…
