by James Mason
7 April 2012
Was it really a budget just for millionaires, let’s find out... The Budget to anyone involved in finance is like an Olympic sport is to athletes. There’s the build-up, the excitement, the anticipation, the one-on-one, the team spirit, the-them-and-us, the brothers-in-arms and of course the event itself. It starts around the end of the Pre-Budget Report. We spend the winter in training, building finger muscles for calculator speed, ben...
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by James Mason
7 April 2012
Investing in property has always been popular and here’s why… The age-old saying goes that “no one ever lost money in bricks and mortar” and whilst this may not be an absolute truth there is undoubtedly some long term security in property. According to Phil and Kirsty it’s all about where it is, and whilst this is of course largely true when it comes to residential property, for other areas of property investment there are other issue...
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by James Mason
23 February 2012
Think again if you think a classic investment is a pension policy… It was recently suggested to me that survival is always a positive outcome, if that is true then one might argue that is all that came out of 2011; the world did indeed survive. Yet while international markets troughed and peeked and some of the biggest economies danced a merry jig with double-dip recessions, quantitative-easing, and credit-easing downgrades, there was...
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by James Mason
10 September 2011
Panic not, help is at hand if the subject of Pensions leaves you dizzy Aside from phone-hacking, the UK riots and of course any sports debate involving an England team, there is little more emotive than the subject of the dreaded Pension. Those with a civil service or final salary pension scheme can probably sit-back and relax, but if, like the rest of us, you are ‘self-employed’ or you don’t have a very good pension, brace yourself and read on....
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