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For many years, rampant house price inflation was a decent earner for many families across the UK. In some cases, people were ‘earning’ more from the rising value of their property than they were earning from employment or self-employment. This situation has dramatically changed in recent years, with the gap between earnings and property

We explore how to extract value from your business progressively, tax-efficiently and in a way that could help you to achieve financial independence.

A summary of the best places on the web for families in business and their advisers to head to for inspiration and answers.

In today’s world you may wonder whether you still need a living, breathing financial adviser. You do. But with a twist. First, we need to redefine traditional financial advice – the kind that’s been delivered by those focused on selling product recommendations or executing transactions – if that’s what you’re thinking

What is Financial Independence? When an individual prepares for retirement they may not realise it but they are actually getting ready for an important event. This event forms the corner stone of all financial plans for those of us still in gainful employment.  The event is financial independence.

Do you want to take control of your financial future? Do you feel as though you would benefit from an objective view on your current financial plan? Great! But… Are you worried about what you might hear? or are you

If I Had My Life Over I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have this trip. I would take fewer

For the first of my updates I thought it would be good to highlight some of the key initial findings from the research and interviews that I have conducted. Some of these initial findings will be old news, it is stuff that we are all familiar with but I still

We love family-owned businesses here at Proposito (we are one ourselves!), and we think that there are innate advantages to being a family business that can help you to succeed. But do you always recognise them yourself and are you communicating those strong points to your clients and

For those that aren’t familiar with the book Eat That Frog, I will summarise: Humans have a tendency to procrastinate. We tend to put off decisions in the hope that they will either go away or someone else will make the decision for us. The book uses an analogy