Clients with larger estates may not be aware of all the tools to address the Inheritance Tax issue. While typical tools such as discounted gift trusts, life insurance and simply spending and gifting the estate remain valid options, for substantial estates there is another solution that may be a good idea. I asked a specialist [...]

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The Financial Services Authority would have us believe that economic sectors like India and China are much higher risk than developed sectors, ie UK, Europe and US. My view has been for sometime now that we should look carefully at this description. Personally, I consider these sectors are much stronger propositions, long term as they [...]

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Anthony Bolton’s fund which many of you took my advice and invested in has had a strong 6 months. The share price has increased in value by 27.9p in the £, as at the 8th November. Anthony has easily outperformed the index the fund is compared to by more than 5% So strong has been [...]

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There has been a great deal of speculation about interest rates rising and the Bank of England (BoE), once again pumping money into the economy via its process of Quantitative Easing (QE). My view is this. Based on feedback from fund managers, that John and I listen to on a regular basis, interest rates are [...]

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China’s GDP for Q2 2010 reached US$1.377 trillion, significantly surpassing Japan’s US$1.288 trillion total, to become the world’s second largest economy behind the US. China has displayed a three-decade rise to dominance, evolving from Communist isolation to become an emerging superpower. China led both the emerging markets and the developed world out of recession in [...]

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