With the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement now delivered, our thoughts turn to planning for 2014 and the post-Christmas recovery we will undoubtedly require during January! Before that, of course, there is the winter holiday season to enjoy, hopefully with family and friends, and we’d like to pass on our very best wishes to all of our […]
Many of us are still uncomfortable when it comes to discussing our family finances, but doing so can help the whole household to save money and ensure that wealth within the family is protected for future generations. Even if you don’t wish to go line by line through your household incomings and outgoings, or to […]
When we compiled our predictions for 2013 we started off by saying ‘when you look ahead to 2013 your glass could be half-full or half-empty.’ At the time the US was teetering on the edge of the Fiscal Cliff; in the UK the lights had just gone out on the last Comet store, the national […]
Responding to increasing fears that the UK could be on the edge of another housing bubble, The Bank of England took steps at the end of November to quash the increasing tide of new mortgages. Concerns around any new bubble in the housing market have been growing since The Treasury released forecasts that house prices […]
Click click merrily on high – the virtual tills are ringing The Guardian’s bid for Financial Headline of the Year brought down the curtain on ‘Black Friday’ and heralded ‘Cyber Monday.’ Black Friday is the Friday before the Thanksgiving weekend in the US: it is supposed to be the day on which stores move into […]
Introduction David Cameron – freshly back from his trade mission to China – looked on encouragingly as Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement. But how his mind must have drifted back to the delights of Shanghai… No inconvenient elections; no opinion polls; no awkward questions from Jeremy Paxman. With one pundit describing the Autumn […]
