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Maximise Your Tax Allowances Before 5th April 2025!
The end of the tax year is approaching on 5th April 2025, which means it's a great time to review your annual allowances and make the...
Darren Pestell
Jan 152 min read
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Independent or Restricted Financial Advice – What’s that all about??
Financial advice plays a key role in supporting individuals, families, and businesses to make informed and suitable financial decisions....
Darren Pestell
Aug 7, 20233 min read
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Investment Mistakes to Avoid
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas." — Paul...
Darren Pestell
Mar 26, 20233 min read
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Six principles of investing...
1. Develop a strategy and stick to it Having a sound investment strategy be the difference between simply hoping for the best and...
Darren Pestell
May 31, 20223 min read
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Pensions & Tax – It’s easier than you’d think…
Understanding your pension can be a complicated business at the best of times so trying to understand its relationship with the tax you...
Darren Pestell
May 5, 20223 min read
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Making the most of your personal tax allowances
With the recent ending of the 2021/22 tax year now is the time to start planning for how you will make the most of your available...
Darren Pestell
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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A Deeper look at inflation
With inflation at *5.5% and heading higher, quite simply, if you're saving for retirement your money is going to have to work harder to...
Darren Pestell
Mar 21, 20222 min read
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What’s pension consolidation? And should I be doing it?
Recent Government research has concluded that the average employee will change jobs 11 times over the course of their working life....
Darren Pestell
Mar 5, 20223 min read
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Lifetime mortgages – is this form of Equity Release right for me?
Many people’s vision of retirement is changing, we are fortunate enough to enjoy longer life expectancies and our aspirations of how we...
Darren Pestell
Feb 14, 20222 min read
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Tax year end - a great time to review your personal pension planning
Your pension planning before 6 April Tax year end The tax year end is fast approaching so this the perfect time to check you’ve made the...
Darren Pestell
Feb 5, 20222 min read
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Protecting your biggest asset…. It’s you!
What’s the risk? The greatest risk to building wealth and a financially secure future for you and your family is an interruption to the...
Darren Pestell
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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ESG; what is it and is it for me?
What is it? ESG investing is a style of “socially responsible” investment that focuses on a companies impact on its people, environment,...
Darren Pestell
Jan 23, 20222 min read
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Do you know your ISAs??
What is an ISA? An ISA is an Individual Savings Account, with INDIVIDUAL being the key word, i.e., a couple each have their own...
Darren Pestell
Jan 16, 20223 min read
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Holistic financial advice, what is it?
Back in the day, financial advice was designed to concentrate on one particular area of someone’s situation, maybe about their pension or...
Darren Pestell
Jan 8, 20222 min read
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