Are final salary pension sign offs actually advice about pensions or just sign offs? There is a difference. The Chartered Insurance Institute ( CII ) has recently issued all its members …
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Tailormade’s Yearly Review | 2017
Happy New Year and all the best for 2018 from everyone at TailorMade Pensions. What a year 2017 was for us, and we hope it was good for you as …
Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 2)
This is the second part of the blog about Pension Scams and what you can do to avoid them. Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 1) …
Shell Pension Scheme
The Shell Pension Scheme, the non-UK scheme being the Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund, seems to have become a target for pension scammers and poor advice. We outline some simple …
Will this bull market ever end?
Bull market(s) – when should you be considering doing the opposite of everyone else? For those clients who need reminding of a bull market and bear market, and what they …
Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 1)
Pension scams have been rife since the implementation of A Day. They are so sophisticated now that their marketing and paperwork can appear legitimate to all those other than a …
Budget 2017
There was considerable discussion about how the British Chancellor Philip Hammond would approach the annual UK Budget 2017. Among many predictions, personal financial commentators focused on possible restrictions on the …
How do interest rates affect equities?
This is for those interested in investments and how interest rates affect equities. The “talk of the town” in mid-late 2017 has been the potential for interest rate rises in …
UAE – SIPPs and QROPS
UAE – SIPPs and QROPS has become a key search term on websites and we thought we would look into this in more detail. We undertook a little bit of …
Gibraltar QROPS- Returning Expats
This article is helpful to current British expats or expats returning to the UK who hold a Gibraltar QROPS having transferred from a British pension. Background: Gibraltar QROPS have been …