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3rd April 2020 One of our most popular individual funds we use is the Fundsmith Equity fund. It’s a very concentrated fund with 29 stocks and managed by Terry Smith. He set the fund up 8 years ago and it now managers c£18BN and is a global equity fund that focuses on quality company’s [...]

Necessity is the Mother of invention. A truer word cannot be said when a 4,000 bed hospital ward is being opened by the end of the week a full two weeks after it was planned. It really shows what can be done when we all pull together and put our minds to it. I [...]

Update from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) The TPR have issued an update to Trustees of Defined Benefit Pension Scheme (final salary schemes) that focuses on what they should do during this present crisis. Part of the guidance is around transfers out of DB schemes which may affect some of our clients. Trustees should give [...]

Well, the first weekend is over since the announcement of the lockdown and it is incredibly quiet on the roads which shows that people are heeding Government advice about self isolating. The stock market was down -6% on Friday and was giving back some of the gains made during the week. Currently the FTSE [...]

During yesterdays update, Rischi Sunak announced that a scheme has been set up to support the UK's self-employed affected by the Coronavirus outbreak. Please see details of this below: This scheme will allow you to claim a taxable grant worth 80% of your trading profits up to a maximum of £2,500 per month for [...]

Markets were slightly up yesterday with the expectation that the US would finally agree their financial package, which they did in the early hours. However, hot on the heels of that the US announced 1000 deaths from Covid 19 so we will see how that will play out today. Currently FTSE 100 is flat [...]