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Financial planning is all about helping you to reach your life goals. Ultimately, the objective is for your wealth to allow you to achieve all the things you want to do now and in the future. That might be as simple as being able to relax and enjoy a comfortable retirement or helping your children
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When was the last time you stopped and paid attention to the sounds around you? It’s easy to become accustomed to the racket of your busy life – honking traffic, dogs barking, phones ringing – but just because you can ignore the constant noise doesn’t mean you should. A 2006 study on music unexpectedly discovered
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Trade wars and fears that tariffs could spark recessions meant investment market volatility continued in March 2025. Read on to find out more about some of the factors that may have affected the value of your investments recently. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development slashed the growth forecast among advanced economies this year due
Read moreMathavan our administration officer is busy training to run the Royal Marsden 10k London Run on 10 July 2016. Here we have attached a note that he’s written about this run and the reason for doing it. If you would like to help Mat raise money for this great cause please go to his justgiving
Read moreIntroduction Another month, another dire warning from the economic great and good. In March it was the International Monetary Fund’s turn to warn that the world faces ‘economic derailment.’ As always, the blame was laid firmly at the door of the Chinese economic slowdown, with IMF second-in-command, David Lipton, warning that steps needed taking to
Read moreBucket lists are, of course, very individual things. We will all have places that we want to travel to and things that we want to do which don’t necessarily chime with everyone else’s goals. However, bucket lists can also be surprisingly difficult to generate! The things that you really want to do one day might
Read moreIt’s been 75 years in the making and the topic for countless philosophers to muse over, but a US study seems to have finally uncovered the secret to happiness and health. Speaking during a TED Talk, Harvard professor Robert Waldinger revealed that, though wealth and fame continue to be commonly cited desires amongst millennials (those
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