Proposito Team 28th February 2014 Act now to avoid the child benefit charge this year The Child Benefit changes in January 2013 resulted in over 460,000 people choosing to stop receiving the payment, rather than be impacted by the High Income Child Benefit Charge,… Read more
Proposito Team 4th February 2014 A way to curb those impulse spends With Christmas long gone, many New Year resolutions may also be just a distant memory. To make a change permanent is pretty tough. It requires a change of… Read more
Huw Jones 31st January 2014 Pigs really can fly on the stock market During the depths of the euro crisis, the countries at the periphery of the Eurozone, with the greatest debts and weakest economies, became known collectively as the Piigs…. Read more
Huw Jones My goldfish died – the best tax excuses During my time as a teacher I heard a few excuses – some of them fantastic – about why homework wasn’t handed in on time. My favourite was… Read more
Proposito Team 14th January 2014 Tax returns – right time, wrong place I may be getting older, slower and greyer but there is at least one thing I am getting better at, and that is filing my self-assessment tax return…. Read more
Proposito Team 27th November 2013 A goal without a plan is just a wish This week from November 24th, the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) is organising Financial Planning Week – a consumer awareness campaign aimed at helping everyone take some simple steps to improve their… Read more
Huw Jones Accumulating without speculating The saying goes that you must ‘speculate to accumulate’. This proverb says little to help people in search of a sensible long-term investment strategy, but it does suggest… Read more
Huw Jones 26th November 2013 Nearly friend, really friend and Louis Walsh Life is weird sometimes. Even a normal looking day can deliver unexpected surprises. Earlier this week I had a meeting in London with a potential client. Nothing strange… Read more