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Merton Best Business Awards Finalist!

Category: News

We are delighted to announce that for the second year running we have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Merton Business Awards – this year it’s in the ‘Service Excellence’ category.  In 2014, you may remember that we were the winners of ‘The Extra Mile’ category The awards recognise the most successful companies based

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Welcome to a new member of the team…

Category: News

We are delighted to welcome a new member of the team at GEM & Co. Mathavan Saseenthrakumar joins us from Merton Chamber of Commerce where he has worked for the past three years and two months in their accounts and finance department. Having graduated from university with a BA (Hons) Accounting & Finance degree, Mat

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June Market Commentary

Category: News

It now seems hard to remember, but this time last month the UK was only a week away from a General Election – an election that was the most difficult to predict in a generation. The pundits were unanimous: the Election would certainly lead to a hung parliament. There would be weeks or wrangling and

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Planning for a better financial future in retirement

Category: Financial planning

Recent HSBC research identified four broad actions which may help today’s retirement savers to create an informal plan and work towards a better financial future for themselves. 1. Be realistic about your retirement aspirations The research indicates that more than half of retirees (53%) have been unable to realise at least one of their hopes

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Second 2015 Budget Announced for 8th July

Category: News

Chancellor George Osborne has surprised voters, political and business leaders alike by announcing that he will take the unusual step of delivering a second 2015 Budget on 8th July, just one hundred and twelve days after the Budget of 18th March. With an Autumn Statement also due later in the year, the second Budget will

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UK General Election – The Results

Category: News

When the polls opened at 7am on Thursday 7th May, the pundits and the pollsters were as one: the only certainty was a hung parliament. It was the most difficult-to-predict election for generations. The opinion polls had the parties running neck and neck, but the Conservatives led slightly in the predicted number of seats. A

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May Market Commentary

Category: News

In the UK April saw the clock ticking down towards the General Election. For the rest of the world, life went on pretty much as normal: that’s to say, China and Germany remorselessly cranked out another trade surplus, the American economy gave us more mixed signals, and Greece teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. These

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IFS Reviews Conservative Inheritance Tax Proposal

Category: Financial planning

Inheritance Tax (IHT) applies to (some) wealth that is transferred on, or shortly before, death. The tax is currently charged at 40%, with each individual receiving an allowance of £325,000, before the tax is applied. Any unused proportion of this allowance is transferable to a surviving spouse or civil partner, effectively doubling the inheritance tax

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