What’s better for retirement: property or pensions?  That’s the ‘killer question’.  The vast majority are wrong.  Over the last 30 years house prices have risen 434% (i.e. more than quadrupled).  But the stockmarket has done far better.  Assuming dividends are reinvested, the FTSE 100 has turned £10,000 in 1986 into £126,870 now.  And if you […]

Grandparents can make a real difference to their grandchildrens’  futures by helping with the costs of education. With the cost of a 3 year university course topping £50k*, grandchildren could otherwise be faced with a sizeable debt on leaving university, or worse, could be put off going altogether. The right combination of trust and investment […]