Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Just a quick one today: I’m off out to help a friend move his boat around the waterways of London! Good reads from the financial blogosphere The Psy-Fi blog says Buffett and Munger’s contrasting [...]
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I guestimated in my rant about the new 50% tax rate introduced in the UK Budget yesterday that I wouldn’t be much better or worse off because of the various changes. A quick skim this morning through the various online calculators that have popped up proves the point: I will be just a couple of [...]
I had a lot of fun today covering the UK Budget over on the Monevator Twitter channel. It was fun racing other finance bloggers and the bloke who does the BBC captions to announce the news. There were two occasions though when I was late with my updates. Both times it was because I was [...]
Amid the horror story that was the UK budget today, one bright spot stood out for those of us trying to save and invest our way to wealth. The government is raising the annual limit on ISA contributions from £7,200 to £10,200. Half of this ISA limit can be ‘wrapped’ around cash savings, just like [...]