2024-03-08T16:16:10+00:00March 8th, 2024|

Spring Budget Statement 2024

The 2024 Spring Budget included the widely anticipated reduction in National Insurance as well as a new British ISA allowance which had been rumoured. Exactly how the new ISA allowance will work in practice is yet to be determined but we do know it will only permit investments into UK assets. Here we summarise some of the key announcements along with a reminder of various previously announced changes that will take effect from April 2024.

2024-02-19T11:59:44+00:00February 16th, 2024|

Navigating 2024 and beyond

Market extremes can pose some surprising risks to investors, and we've had plenty of examples in the last few years. It's not just about performance. From FOMO to FOBI, the behavioural impact can have equally significant impacts on returns. In this insight, we explore how we build optimised strategies focused on long-term resilience, rather than chasing short-term market trends.

2023-12-07T10:48:31+00:00December 4th, 2023|

Navigating divorce and the path back to financial and psychological independence

In this article, Amy Fox a Partner in the Family Team at Penningtons Manches Cooper, Alice Sanders a Wealth Manager at Edison Wealth Management and Dr Lucy Atcheson a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, explore how people become trapped in controlling and unhappy marriages. They answer the most common fears their clients have about divorce and explain how the three of them work together to make divorce less daunting for you.

2023-11-30T11:36:50+00:00November 14th, 2023|

What happens next?

We launched Edison in 2007 and soon encountered a period of volatile markets and high interest rates. Investors faced tough questions about whether to stay invested or cash out. In many ways, the last two years have felt just like those first two years in business. In this insight, we look at the data to explore the answers to those questions, and consider what might happen next.

2023-10-12T12:26:03+01:00September 15th, 2023|

Pension poverty on divorce and the gender pension gap

In this article, Alice Sanders, a Financial Planner and Pension Specialist at Edison Wealth Management, and Priya Palanivel, a Partner in the Family Team at Sheridans, a West End law firm, consider how pensions are treated on divorce, the tax benefits of pensions and how to avoid falling into the pension poverty trap.

2023-09-14T16:58:27+01:00September 1st, 2023|

Has America sneezed?

Comprising around 25 per cent of world GDP, the US has a significant influence on the business and financial cycles of other economies - in other words, when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. With ever increasing concerns that the US would fall into a recession, we assess those claims and offer ways investors might navigate periods of economic uncertainty.

2023-05-19T15:29:54+01:00May 19th, 2023|

Cash is king?

For fifteen years UK interest rates have been set at historic lows. As a result, cash deposits have earned very little interest, while markets have generally advanced. But higher inflation has ushered in a new regime of rapidly rising interest rates, making cash returns more appealing. We consider whether now is a good time to be holding more money in savings.

2023-03-16T13:14:42+00:00March 16th, 2023|

Spring Budget Statement 2023

Yesterday’s Spring Budget included pension measures that went further than recent rumours suggested, with Jeremy Hunt announcing the abolition of the pensions Lifetime Allowance (the limit on total pension benefits above which there is an additional tax charge) alongside increases to the various forms of the Annual Allowance (the maximum that can be paid into a pension before additional tax charges apply). Here we summarise some of the key announcements.

2023-03-07T17:00:35+00:00March 7th, 2023|

Are there reasons to be cheerful?

High inflation and rising interest rates are causing a global set of worries for households, businesses, and central banks. Add to the mix crumbling public services, geopolitical conflicts, and an economic slowdown on the horizon, it can be tempting to think that things are bad and only getting worse. This insight piece challenges that view, asking: are there reasons to be cheerful?

2022-11-18T17:21:24+00:00November 18th, 2022|

Autumn Statement 2022

Jeremy Hunt used the Autumn Statement in an attempt to calm markets and reset public finances with a series of tax rises achieved through cuts and freezes to allowances. Here we have provided a summary of the key points in the Autumn Statement.

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