By garethflanagan on March 25, 2009
The Bank of England further reduced the Base Rate to 0.5%. This is the lowest it has ever been but what is the next step to take as there doesn’t seem to be much manoeuvring space left? This is where the monetary policy of quantitative easing comes in, in an attempt to ease the already [...]
Posted in Personal Finance
By garethflanagan on March 25, 2009
Michael Kennedy, Chartered Financial Planner at Principle First discusses a few questions you should consider asking a financial adviser /Financial planner. 1. Are You Independent? This is a very important question as it has a baring on the type of advice you receive. Only independent financial advisers advise on products from the whole of the [...]
Posted in Financial Planning
By garethflanagan on December 4, 2008
If you have commenced a UK pension scheme since 1985, and contributed very little or stopped contributing, you may have more than you think in your personal pension or company pension than you think. It has come to light that many financial advisers would have contracted people out of the UK second state pension (previously [...]
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