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Average life expectancies have increased significantly in recent years, both in the UK and the rest of the world. While people living longer is always good news, it also brings new challenges for your health and, crucially, your finances. Maintaining your physical and mental wellbeing over a longer life requires more than just good luck.
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Trade tariffs continued to affect investment markets in June 2025, though uncertainty did start to ease. However, rising tensions in the Middle East may have affected the performance of your investments. Read on to find out more. Remember, it’s often wise to take a long-term view of your investments when reviewing returns, rather than focusing
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Generation Z, people born between 1997 and 2012, are more likely to take a career break from work than any other generation. Sabbaticals are an extended break from your job that last long enough for you to fully relax and distance yourself from your work life, often ranging between a month and a year, or
Read moreGEM & Co Financial Services wins Service Excellence at the Merton Best Business Awards Gem & Co Financial Services has been recognised as the number one business in Merton for service excellence. At a gala ceremony at the All England Lawn Tennis Club on 24th September, Gem & Co won the Merton Best Business Award
Read moreThe end of September, and the end of the third quarter of 2015 – a quarter which, as all the financial press reported, was the worst for global equities since 2011. As CNBC put it: A sustained collapse in commodity prices, China’s stunning market rout followed by its shocking currency devaluation as well as fears
Read moreA recent Standard Life article suggests that in simple terms, you probably shouldn’t be worried about recent market falls. Most of us are investing over the long term, and significant market falls happen periodically. Generally, the wrong thing to do when markets fall by a reasonable margin is to panic and sell out of
Read moreStrategic reports provide ‘very little insight’ into future prospects. Many strategic reports contain a mass of annual data and text, which is largely backward looking, finds a PriceWaterhouse (PwC) study. Information disclosed in companies’ annual reports is being buried in a mass of annual data and text, presenting investors with a tough challenge to unearth
Read moreA single Lifetime ISA for everyone should be created with all tax reliefs on pension contributions being scrapped, a leading figure at the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has proposed, according to an article published by the CPS. Research Fellow Michael Johnson said the opportunity has come for a radical overhaul of savings after the
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