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Asset Rich And Cash Poor? You’re Not Alone.
A flurry of recent reports have found that around one fifth of UK adults aged 55 and over, approximately 4.2 million people, have less than £1,000 in savings. Even with interest payable on some saving account balances nearing 6%, such modest financial reserves could quickly come under strain should people need emergency cash.
Balancing the Books: Pension Triple Lock and Equity Release for a Comfortable Retirement
Towards the end of 2019, a few months before the pandemic arrived and turned our lives upside down, I shared a beer with a good friend, a guy I’ve known for mor...
Can you combat rising costs and support your family with equity release?
Though buried in the busiest holiday month of the year, mid-August is nonetheless a significant period for hundreds of thousands of adults. On 16th August, the...
Interest Rate Increase to 5.25% - Supporting Loved Ones With A Low Deposit
Mothers in particular know instinctively when their offspring need a hand, though fathers too tend to have a (slightly more delayed) inkling when their assistan...
Interest Rates; Are they too high, too low or about right?
For more than 35 years, the impending arrival of a new football season has resulted in around 25 of us, all long-standing friends, submitting a variety of well-...
A Flexible Option to Complete Your Retirement Bucket List
The prospect of visiting Australia always held enormous appeal. Perhaps because it’s so far away, or maybe because the weather always looks so fabulously good,...
Fact or Fiction: Revealing the Truth Behind Equity Release
Spend time in almost any company, large or small, and it soon becomes apparent that perhaps the greatest threat feared by the organisation’s owners and manageme...
Nationwide House Price Index: Let’s Put This Into Perspective
A recent television programme, The Blackouts of ’74: When Britain Went Dark, examined why the lights went out in 1974 and Britain was reduced to a 3-day working...
A few years ago, the National Lottery operators published results of a survey conducted among a very select group of people, major Lotto winners, after asking t...
Eurovision highlights cost of living crisis: Is equity release the answer for UK homeowners?
I’m old enough to remember artistes including Sandie Shaw, Lulu and Cliff Richard representing the UK in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, back in the days be...