One super-efficient tool for ensuring a smooth transfer of life insurance monies to your family is to set up your life insurance in trust.
One super-efficient tool for ensuring a smooth transfer of life insurance monies to your family is to set up your life insurance in trust.
The transfer of wealth to your children – better known as inheritance planning -Â is a complex area of personal finance that must be well planned in order to work efficiently. The central factor to consider in inheritance planning is taxation, and in particular Inheritance Tax, which, if left unheeded, can be applied to parts of [...]
In your fifties, your children may be grown. Perhaps your youngest is about to depart to make her own way in the world. You find yourself, your spouse and your cat enjoying a cup of tea alone, in the sudden quiet of an empty house.
This is not a time for sadness. Don’t think of it as losing a daughter – think of it as regaining a bathroom!
The largest hill on the horizon as you enter your sixties is, of course, your retirement. In your financial life cycle, the main task is to turn your pension savings into an income, as your working life comes to an end.
The most popular way of doing this is by purchasing a pension annuity with your pension savings. This pays out a guaranteed income for the rest of your life, and can be a fixed sum, or can be set to increase each year, in order to account for inflation.
Would you like to claw back some of those hefty taxes you gave to the government last year? You may be attracted by an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), which is a government approved scheme providing a range of tax benefits to investors. With an EIS, you can recover tax equal to 20% of your investment, provided you [...]
















