Ian Henning
  Ian Henning   ● Oct 9, 2017

Bank of England overhauls mortgage affordability rates

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...

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Ian Henning
  Ian Henning   ● Oct 2, 2017

Limited company owners: What to do with your lazy cash

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 ...

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lady
  Staff Writer   ● Sep 27, 2017

Remortgage, anyone?

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...

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Bill Monty
  Bill Monty   ● Sep 25, 2017

Group life cover: Why to worry about your lifetime allowa...

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...

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lady
  Staff Writer   ● Sep 24, 2017

Tracker vs stock picker? A Nobel Prize winning mystery

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

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lady
  Staff Writer   ● Sep 4, 2017

Top of the market? When? Where? How?

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

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Niel Pretorius
  Niel Pretorius   ● Aug 10, 2017

The war on South African expats continues

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

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lady
  Staff Writer   ● Aug 2, 2017

Pension auto enrolment – does it apply to UK contractors?

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...

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Niel Pretorius
  Niel Pretorius   ● Jul 21, 2017

How SARS plans to target South African expats

Mark Twain said it best – “The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist only takes your skin”. In the 2017...

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