Articles by ‘James McNeile’

Dutch-style “collective” pensions are certainly not illegal in the UK, whatever you may read in the press, says Roger May, our pensions consultant.

The importance of looking after your money in order that it can provide for you and your loved ones in the future is something which should be carefully considered, and is perhaps even more…

No one likes the thought that one day they may be old and infirm, but for many it is an inevitability. The projected rise in dementia, commonly caused by Alzeimer’s disease

Recent research has revealed that almost 70% of forty year olds do not have a will.

Figures published earlier this year from healthcare research firm Laing & Buisson, found that the number of people in residential care rose by 2.2 per cent in the year to September 2012.

Although we do not wish to dwell on the negatives of getting older, there are advantages in planning ahead for later life.

Royds Private Client and Family teams wish to clarify a report in this morning’s Metro under the heading ‘Divorcees “risk all going to ex”‘.

You will have seen the newspaper headlines after the Prince of Wales’ speech to the National Association of Pension Funds conference.

Becky Ricards Small has been appointed Chair of the B&NES area of the Quartet Community Foundation. She takes over from Richard Hall from Zenith International who has been Chair for the last six years….

Drake he’s in his hammock an’ a thousand miles away, (Capten, art tha sleepin’ there below?)

You will recall that these Updates have expressed some scepticism over the prospect of pension schemes investing in infrastructure projects, even after the setting-up of the “Pensions Infrastructure Platform”, or PIP, in March 2012. (The pensions world loves its acronyms).

Our top priority is to overcome decades of neglect and make Britain a learning society, developing the talents and raising the ambitions of all our people.