Financial emigration: Transfer your RAs out of SA

by Niel Pretorius | Oct 20, 2017

If you’re a South African who is thinking about moving abroad, or who has already moved, you should consider financially emigrating. Among oth...

Read more

Bank of England overhauls mortgage affordability rates

by Ian Henning | Oct 9, 2017

The Bank of England (BoE) has recently announced an update to its affordability rule introduced in 2014. This change will mean that a huge swa...

Read more

Limited company owners: What to do with your lazy cash

by Ian Henning | Oct 2, 2017

What a busy few years it has been with all the tax changes coming in. For a lot of limited company directors/contractors what it has meant is ...

Read more

Remortgage, anyone?

by Staff Writer | Sep 27, 2017

With interest rates at record lows in the UK and the Bank of England warning last week that rates will rise sooner than markets predict, now c...

Read more

Group life cover: Why to worry about your lifetime allowance

by Bill Monty | Sep 25, 2017

One of the key benefits of choosing to work for an employer, apart from the obvious salary incentive, is becoming part of their employer group...

Read more

Tracker vs stock picker? A Nobel Prize winning mystery

by Staff Writer | Sep 24, 2017

In 2013 a strange thing happened at the Nobel Prize awards for Economics. This Nobel Prize has particular relevance for investors. The prize w...

Read more

Top of the market? When? Where? How?

by Staff Writer | Sep 4, 2017

Providing prognostications on the future seems to be a habit of people in finance, investments and economics. However, much like the attempts ...

Read more

The war on South African expats continues

by Niel Pretorius | Aug 10, 2017

South Africans working abroad are already reeling at the proposed repeal of the foreign employment income tax exemption, which was recently pr...

Read more

Pension auto enrolment – does it apply to UK contractors?

by Staff Writer | Aug 2, 2017

We all now know that the UK government has become concerned that the work force is not putting enough money aside to cover their financial req...

Read more