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I hope you find it useful?An Autumn Statement for Savers
Today’s Autumn Statement saw George Osborne declare he was backing the aspirations of savers with changes to ISAs and Stamp Duty. The Chancellor also confirmed the changes to ISAs and Pensions announced earlier in the year. We already knew that from April 2015, savers...
2014: The year to make saving a priority
Copy of a blog post from True Potential Wealth Management. 2nd January 2014 As we enter 2014, now’s the time when people are thinking about their New Year’s resolutions. The second most popular resolution last year was to save money, with reading more books in the top...
The winners and losers of the Bank of England’s interest rate announcement
Saw this and it does help to explain how it may effect different people, saver, pensions and mortgages. Hope it helps! Mark Author: Tahmina Mannan, Joanna Faith - IFAonline | 07 Aug 2013 The Bank of England (BoE) has announced it will not raise the base rate of...
Changes to the State Retirement Age
Changes to the State Retirement Age With the Government’s seemingly endless tinkering with the State Retirement Age it is easy to lose track of when you can expect to receive your State Pension. We have moved a long way from the days when men retired at 65 and...
Thames Financial Planning in the community
Once again we were pleased to be able to supply St Anne's Heath school at Virginia Water with the sound system for their sports day. It was a hot one but they managed to pull it off as always with the headmaster Mr Graham Bollands doing such a great job with the...
Cost of sending a child to state school soars to £22,500
For all of you that have children! – Mark Bugden As reported in IFAonline.co.uk Author: Joanna Faith IFAonline | 10 Jul 2013 The average cost of putting a child through school in the UK is now £22,596, which works out at £1,614 per child, per school year. According to...