Author Archives: Nick Bamford
Advisory or discretionary investment services?
Barclays’ Wealth Division has closed its discretionary fund management service to those clients who have less than £250,000 of assets. …
Joining the ranks of the silver slugger
Apparently there are now over 1 million people over the age of 65 still working. Leaving aside the fact that …
Business assets remain business assets on divorce
The BBC are reporting today about the Supreme Court victory of the English estranged wife of a Nigerian oil tycoon. According …
Go on…take some more of our money!
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has today announced that it has declared 13 advisory firms “in default” and wants …
Protecting your pension fund when the lifetime allowance is cut
The lifetime allowance for pensions is being cut from £1.5m to £1.25m on 6th April 2014. With this cut comes …
UCIS ban on 1st January 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced that with effect from 1st January 2014 it will ban the selling …
£7bn a year of free babysitting services
It was reported today by the Daily Mail that babysitting grandparents are effectively saving families some £7bn per year. Now …
What does a FTSE 100 rally really mean?
The FTSE 100 index has rallied strongly today following last week’s sharp falls and that usually gets some media attention. …
I don’t want to be poor
I recall the saying “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, rich is better” but I had to do a …
The Value of a Light Bulb Moment
One of the delights of the job that I do is witnessing the ‘light bulb moment’. This is when I …
