Buying your own home
As I write this England have just lost against Uruguay and our office is very quiet! However, hope springs eternal and we will all be hoping that Italy come to our rescue. [...]
Articles by Geoff Newman
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Workplace Pensions – Advice for Employers
Workplace Pensions and Auto Enrolment can be a tough ask for smaller companies who don’t have the resources available to research the rules, analyse their staff, make key [...]
Investor Outlook
In last month’s issue I wrote that George Osborne had delivered a budget with one eye on next year’s election by giving significant help to savers, particularly those who [...]
The Spring Budget
George Osborne has just delivered the spring budget as I sit down to write this and I can’t help thinking it is done with one eye on the economy and the other firmly fixed [...]
Changes to Pension Lifetime Allowance Limit
I’m writing this month’s article at the end of January with the headline in the Times, “Wettest January on record as more rain sweeps in”! So why am I writing this [...]
Caveat Emptor or is it Caveat Venditor?
I was recently having a cup of coffee with Ron Taylor, editor of the online Harpendia magazine and he recounted a story that got me reflecting about how life has changed over [...]
Finance – Why You Should Plan For The Future
A happy new year to all my regular and of course occasional readers, I hope you had a fabulous festive season and have made some exciting resolutions. Maybe one of those was [...]
Planning a holiday?
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day, yes I do have some, and asked him what he was doing for Christmas this year. He replied that he was going to Australia to [...]
Not just for holidays!
As the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is well upon us and the bumper apple crop is descending from the trees quicker than we can eat them, our thoughts turn to [...]
Downsizing to a Smaller Home
As someone who downsized nearly five years ago I was interested to read that nearly three quarters of the UK’s 10.4 million pensioners own their own home and a quarter of [...]