Archive for the ‘Pension Rule Changes’ Category


|Investments| Are banks taking too much risk with your investments?

In a report this week by the FSA (Financial Services Authority) on risk, titled Retail Conduct Risk Outlook, the FSA made statements regarding the risks that banks may be taking with your investments, risks that may be inappropriate.   They say &…

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|Investments| Are banks taking too much risk with your investments?

In a report this week by the FSA (Financial Services Authority) on risk, titled Retail Conduct Risk Outlook, the FSA made statements regarding the risks that banks may be taking with your investments, risks that may be inappropriate.   They say &…

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Your Retirement Plans – a shattered dream or a dream come true?

Are your retirement dreams coming true as you read these words or lying, like the shards from a shattered 21 piece tea service, in ruins? If they are, and it would seem that with the current stock market woes at present, values are all over the place, …

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Your Pension Plan – High charges and Low growth

I went to visit a potential client yesterday, several in fact, but this one was in Bedfordshire (Potton to be exact) and we were discussing his current pension scheme that he has with a very well known and respected pension provider. He was invested in…

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“Recession has forever changed UK consumers”

That’s the headline in the Daily Telegraph Business section 17th September 2011. So what is the reason for this being on a website of a Royston,Hertfordshire based Independent Financial Adviser, I hear you say! Please read on, all will become evi…

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Critical Illness Cover

Critical Illness Cover She said “It’ll never happen to me – I’ll never get a critical illness” – how wrong she was. Just how important is it to have critical illness cover in relation to a mortgage. A Critical Illness Insurance plan, usually linked to a life assurance policy for a mortgage, is designed to [...]

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Colin Palmer Investments | Pension Planning

The Importance of Pension Planning How many Frogs do you have to kiss before you find the right IFA? An intriguing title I must admit, but one I have seen several times regarding the quality and availability of good independent financial advice. Many people in the UK today have a need for good financial advice, [...]

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Investment planning

As we have stated elsewhere on this website, we are not stock pickers, never have been nor ever will be. We do not believe that in a dynamic market economy like the UK (and the whole of the Western World, come to that) that it is possible to consistently pick stocks from the many 1,000′s [...]

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