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Getting the most out of your retirement and reaching your goals requires careful planning. But as we all know, life doesn’t always go to plan. If you decide you want to retire sooner than originally planned – whether due to circumstances beyond your control, a health crisis, or a simple change of heart – a
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Conflict in the Middle East caused market volatility throughout March 2026. Find out what other factors may have affected your investments. While the ongoing uncertainty may feel unsettling for investors, remember that your strategy reflects your long-term goals and considers periods of volatility. Oil prices rising and ongoing uncertainty led to stock markets falling On
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Modern life is often full of constant stimuli, from notifications popping up on your phone to the noise of the TV in the background. Finding time and ways to declutter your brain could improve your wellbeing and allow you to really relax. Being overstimulated might mean your brain rarely gets to rest, even when you’re
Read moreAnd the proportion of those self-funding is only set to increase in the coming years. The number of people self-funding their residence in a care home is ‘mind-boggling’, according to respected IFA Gareth Rees. Rees, a Chartered Financial Planner working for GEM & Co Financial Services, was speaking in the wake of a Sunday Times
Read moreReported recently across the media, David Cameron has promised an ‘all-out assault on poverty’, with a series of social reforms to include better mental health services and mentoring schemes. The PM said new mothers and teenagers with anorexia were among those who would benefit from improved services. He also promised to flatten ‘sink estates’, help
Read moreTwo books are first and third in the current US Best Sellers list – both by Japanese-American tidying guru, Marie Kondo. Her tidying wisdom has swept the US as a way to feel better about yourself and your home and it’s now heading to the UK. She recently shared her top tips for ‘decluttering’ and
Read moreTwelve green bottles, standing on the wall Twelve green bottles, standing on the wall And if one green bottle, should accidentally fall… Yes, yes, we know the song is really ‘ten green bottles,’ but in January 2016 the world’s leading stock markets resembled nothing more than the row of proverbial bottles. As one fell, so
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