UK dividends are continuing to grow faster than inflation, according to the latest quarterly data from Link Asset Service. Source: Link Asset Services, FTSE The latest UK Dividend Monitor (UKDM) shows that in the third quarter of 2018 dividend payments … Continue reading →

Imagine you are named as the executor and a beneficiary of your wife’s wealthy aunt. You learn that she is suffering from terminal cancer and has ‘a very impaired lifespan’. What do you do? This is what happened in the … Continue reading →

Two recent events have shone different lights on the government’s view of unmarried couples. As the graph shows, marriage has been drifting out of fashion for close to 50 years. There are now over 3.3 million unmarried couples in the … Continue reading →

A 2.6% rise in the single tier state pension was announced in the 2018 Budget. The increase to the single tier state pension, and its predecessor the basic state pension, will apply from next April. Other state pensions, such as … Continue reading →