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Tuesday, February 16
by
Mark Green
on Tue 16 Feb 2010 14:27 GMT
Mrs Fiddler is a widow with 3 grown up children Tom, Dick & Harriet.
She wasn't yet aware of her illigitimate beneficiary Alistair, who would inherit twice as much as her other children. . . more »
Friday, April 15
by
Mark Green
on Fri 15 Apr 2011 17:19 BST
Consider a wealthy widow(er) pensioner wishing to buy a yacht for £600,000:
He could draw 1.2 million pounds from his pension under flexible drawdown and pay £600k tax or he could borrow the money and let his estate pay it off later. more »
by
Mark Green
on Fri 15 Apr 2011 16:53 BST
Consider a wealthy widower pensioner wishing to buy a yacht for £600,000.
He could draw a million pounds from his ... more » Tuesday, March 1
by
Mark Green
on Tue 01 Mar 2011 13:43 GMT
The European Court of Justice place a ban on gender-based insurance pricing means that to save money, women should get ... more »Friday, February 25
by
Mark Green
on Fri 25 Feb 2011 13:40 GMT
Banks agree to review their will-writing services amid fears that bereaved families are being overcharged £40m a year. Many banks ... more »Wednesday, August 11
by
Mark Green
on Wed 11 Aug 2010 17:16 BST
John Lawson discusses the inheritance tax implications of retiring abroad. ... more » Wednesday, July 21
by
Mark Green
on Wed 21 Jul 2010 13:52 BST
RE: J04 Exam Questions July 2010
I was trying to identify the exam questions from yesterday's J04 exam. You'd think ... more » Thursday, July 8
by
Mark Green
on Thu 08 Jul 2010 13:51 BST
Sadly the FSA have had far too much to do in near-by Gateshead lately, with another local IFA N-Hanced fined ... more »
Tuesday, April 27
by
Mark Green
on Tue 27 Apr 2010 12:28 BST
Buying a house can be a complicated process, especially if you’re doing it for the first time, but one thing that’s really annoyed me during the course of buying my property is that I’m really not sure who I can trust. more »
Monday, April 26
by
Mark Green
on Mon 26 Apr 2010 14:35 BST
Geoffrey David Andrews,
trading as Foundations Home Finance, has had his regulatory permissions
cancelled by the FSA.
Andrews, formerly ... more »
Tuesday, April 6
by
Mark Green
on Tue 06 Apr 2010 13:51 BST
It had been a long day for Harry Markopolos, the man who outed Wall Street titan Bernard Madoff as a crook. The whistleblower whose warnings were ignored for a decade was tired of talking.
Markopolos was the first man to alert the SEC to Madoff’s $65 billion (£43 billion) Ponzi scheme, but it repeatedly ignored him. more »
Tuesday, March 9
by
Mark Green
on Tue 09 Mar 2010 14:23 GMT
Going to university can cost more than £7,000 a year when you take into account tuition fees, accommodation, food, transport and socialising. IFAonline asks top advisers what parents can do to save enough money to fund their child's further education. more »
Thursday, February 25
by
Mark Green
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 12:54 GMT
A third - or almost 30,000 - of all consumer complaints referred to the financial ombudsman (FOS) in the second half of last year were against just three high street banks.
Figures released today by the FOS show there were 27,137 new grievances against Lloyds TSB, Barclays and Bank of Scotland in the six months to 31 December 2009, with Lloyds the subject of 9,952 complaints. more »
Monday, February 15
by
Mark Green
on Mon 15 Feb 2010 12:26 GMT
" It should be remembered that the Mortgage Code Compliance Board (MCCB) looked after around 10,000 firms and 38,000 registered sales staff at a cost of £4.4 million per annum. This cost is less than the increase in actual costs required by FSA to cover the same, but smaller, sector this year. The FSA has a cost budget this year of £15.6 million for the sector." more »
Wednesday, November 18
by
Mark Green
on Wed 18 Nov 2009 13:22 GMT
We had thought that the Meerkat doll buying public were obsessed with comparison websites as an easy if not thorough ... more »
Monday, November 2
by
Mark Green
on Mon 02 Nov 2009 11:44 GMT
Inheritance tax benefits enjoyed by married couples could soon be extended to co-habitués under proposals drawn up by the Law Commission. more »
Monday, June 29
by
Mark Green
on Mon 29 Jun 2009 12:46 BST
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father
and working in the family business.
When he ... more » Wednesday, May 6
by
Mark Green
on Wed 06 May 2009 12:48 BST
I'm sure that there are still many people (including some financial advisers) who are struggling to understand how the financial ... more »Friday, May 1
by
Mark Green
on Fri 01 May 2009 13:44 BST
Britain's
beleaguered banks are the "authors of their misfortune", with the
bankers themselves having made "an astonishing mess" of the ... more »
Wednesday, February 4
by
Mark Green
on Wed 04 Feb 2009 12:52 GMT
Wednesday, January 21
by
Mark Green
on Wed 21 Jan 2009 12:34 GMT
The Financial Services Authority's Retail Distribution Review (RDR) may serve only to turn people away from financial advice, senior insurance executives say.
Two-thirds of attendees at an RDR debate hosted by consultants Watson Wyatt said the Review will either have no impact or a negative effect on consumer uptake of financial services products. more »
Friday, December 19
by
Mark Green
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 13:27 GMT
Wednesday, October 8
by
Mark Green
on Wed 08 Oct 2008 10:26 BST
Timeline: Global credit crunch
A year ago, few people had heard of the term credit crunch, but the phrase has ... more » |
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