The Downing Brief: Mortgage Complacency Costs More Than You Think

Go back to blogs Complacency, probably for most of us, comes when investing or borrowing money. It extends to also putting in place the right tax efficient Wills, financial planning to achieve our financial goals and to save Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and now more...

Pensions reforms in the March 2023 Budget

Go back to blogs Overall the Budget of March 2023 seemed to be positive for pensions., with a series of big and encouraging headlines as to the changes announced. The major reform was the abolition of The Lifetime Allowance (The LTA), from April 2024, but with an...

Rising inflation and rising interest rates. What can we do?

Go back to blogs First, we always need to have a sufficient cash reserve to meet our immediate needs for known expenditure and for emergencies. For most of us, it is better to have this immediate cash reserve on deposit so we can sleep at night. Most of us prefer not...