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Investment Comment July 2012
The summit last week came up with a decision to use the eurozone's bailout fund to provide direct support to struggling banks. Spain and Italy secured agreement to allow the bailout fund to buy government debt in the markets, to bring down ...
Retirement Planning
The State Pension age for women will rise to 65 by November 2018. It will increase for men and women to 66 between November 2018 and October 2020. In the Autumn Statement 2011 it was announced that the pension age will increase to 67 betwe ...
Budget 2012
Despite the fears of further changes to pension tax reliefs and allowances, none were announced in the Chancellor's speech today. He confirmed the plan to change the State Pension to a single tier above the means test, at a minimum of &pou ...
Diversification by including Private Equity Investing
Private equity investments can be included in a portfolio by buying an investment trust such as Candover, Graphite Enterprise or Henderson Private Equity. You can also access the sector with Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and Enterprise Inv ...
Update on the markets
The stockmarkets of the world have done well so far in 2012. Equities are cheap relative to bonds in the US and the UK, and company earnings are growing. This is likely to lead to good returns from equities in the medium term, but there ar ...
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