At home on one of my bookshelves I have counted at least five books about King Alfred the Great. Alongside […]

In this guest article, Allison Crossman at TWM Solicitors LLP describes the importance of making a will as part of […]

Yesterday afternoon I gave a talk to a local U3A group on the subject of care fees planning. It’s a […]

I’m not really a used car salesman, but don’t tell HM Revenue & Customs. That seems to have been the […]

According to the Markit Household Finance Index, optimism about family finances in 2014 is at its highest level since 2009. […]

Any police officer will tell you that ignorance of the law is no defence. Any Financial Planner will tell you […]

New research has reached the (perhaps unsurprising) conclusion that London and the South East of England pay more inheritance tax […]

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average price of a UK property reached £250,000 in December. House […]

Earlier this week, Carole Ann Rice devoted her column in the Daily Express to my favourite subject – Financial Planning […]

If you are looking for independent financial advice, you should always work with a suitably qualified professional. The pinnacle of […]

It’s probably politically incorrect to suggest that women should be treated any differently from men in more or less any […]

It’s been rather damp around here lately. As I type this, there are fourteen severe flood warnings in place in […]

I frequently hear women tell me they struggle with maths and don’t understand finance. They often have a real mental […]

Have you kept yours? We are almost at the end of January and the majority of us will already have […]

It’s not been a good week for wealthier members of British society. We’ve seen Labour pledge to reintroduce the 50p […]

Death has been in the news quite a bit recently. We’ve had the Hayley Cropper suicide storyline in Coronation Street, […]

Inspired by an exchange between a pensions expert and consumer champion on Twitter this morning, I was thinking about some […]

Katie Melua famously sang that there are nine million bicycles in Bejiing. It is hard to know how accurate this […]

Everyone seems to have an interest rate prediction these days, along with advice for the policymakers. Now that the UK […]

As my colleague Shelley explained in her blog yesterday (Inflation now at 2% target, 14th January 2014) , the latest […]