In a historic referendum, Britain has voted to leave the European Union. The result of the vote has already triggered a tidal wave of political and fiscal changes, the most headline-grabbing of which is the commitment by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to resign and have new leadership in place by the Conservative party conference in October. We were already in the process of preparing a full post-vote briefing document for all of our clients, which will present a summary

For the first time since the 1870s, the gap between the expected lifespan of the rich and the poor is getting wider in England and Wales. A study by City University London confirms that, whilst people are living longer overall, the lifespan of rich people is expanding faster. Using statistics from the Human Mortality Database, the researchers looked at the age difference between the youngest 10% and oldest 5% of adult deaths. The gap steadily closed between 1870 and 1939 than

May was the month when you could be forgiven for thinking that there was only one event in the world that mattered: the continuing debate on the UK’s membership of the EU. But while the claims and counter-claims of Messrs Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Gove filled the airwaves and dominated the headlines, for the rest of the world it was ‘business as normal.’ German unemployment fell to a record low, Greece unlocked another tranche of bail-out cash, there was the usual mixed n

One of our responsibilities as your financial adviser is to help you put market news in its proper perspective, especially when the media is reporting particularly steep, UK market declines like we've seen during the past few days. If you are okay with ignoring the current headlines and going about your business according to the investment portfolio we recommended to you, feel free to continue as you were. Unless you would like to revisit your own risk tolerances or individua