Introduction Whatever else happened in October, Hurricane Sandy happened. Or Superstorm Sandy or ‘Frankenstorm.’ Take your pick. A week before America was due to go the polls, the storm hit the North Eastern seaboard with tragic consequences. President Obama broke off the campaign to help and Mitt Romney wisely decided that addressing a tanned group of supporters in the sun […]
Changes to the rules on Child Benefit come into force in January 2013 and will reduce the entitlement of about 1.2 million families. Families where one parent is earning more than £50,000 a year will no longer be able to claim the total amount of child benefit, under government rules which will be implemented by […]
The UK insurance industry uses many risk factors in order to work out the cost of insurance to the consumer. Insurers collect claims and other statistics and use this information to ensure that customers who are more likely to claim, pay more for their insurance. For example, statistics indicate that women live longer than men […]
The votes have been cast, Mitt Romney has phoned President Obama to concede and the victor has graciously accepted the challenge of guiding the faltering US economy through the next four years. But what does Obama’s re-election mean for world stock markets – and more particularly, for your savings and investments? At first glance, the […]
Yesterday the Chancellor presented his Budget for 2012. We have prepared a free analysis highlighting the key impacts and this is available as a download at the end of this text. This Budget was heralded as a Budget for economic stability, tax simplification and growth, but was set against a relatively benign economy that is […]