Whereas SIPPs offer a transparent and low rate of account administration charges the same cannot be said for traditional pension schemes. A small sounding 3% annual management charge can erode the value of your final pension pot, for example, from £300,000 to just £150,000. Shocking isn’t it? Hidden charges and incentives for pension management teams to switch your pension...

  Brasilia, Friday, October 9, 2011-The extended consumer price Index rose 0.53% for the month of September, ahead of 0.37% in August and 0.45% in September 2010 and 4.97% year to date, significantly higher than the same period a year ago at 3.60%.  For twelve months running the figure was 7.31% highest since May 2005 when the index touched 8.05%.     Economists agree that this points to...

Simple changes in life expectancy are playing a major part here: – in 1950 the average man spent 18% of his life in retirement, today it is 33% and many of those years will be spent in ‘active retirement’ - unrecognizable to our parents and certainly grandparents. In fact, the very meaning of the word ‘retirement’ is changing in the...

The four luxury X Factor houses that housed UK X factor contestants were subject to facebook poll conducted by overseas property portal Homesgofast,com and produced US winners in first and second place. The poll asked which “Which is The Best X Factor Judges Home” revealed that UK facebook fans loved the US based judge’s homes the best. The...

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One of Britain’s leading newspapers has named France as the best place in the world to buy property.  The Daily Telegraph has recently reported the results of the biggest ever survey of foreign holiday homeowners and found, perhaps surprisingly, that ‘the number of Brits buying abroad as actually increased during the downturn.’ Number of Brits owning properties...

Brasilia - The month of September saw a rise of 1,9% in Brazil´s seven largest cities and a cumulative 12 month gain of 29% on average for those cities and across all types of apartments. Those cities are all state capitals of 7 of Brazil´s 26 states. The average price per square meter reached R$ 5,936, with Brasilia, the nation´s capital topping the list at R$ 7,859. In English, and...

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Property in Australia has been remarkably resilient to the recent global financial crisis.  Indeed, in early 2011, US consultants Demographia labelled Australia as the most expensive property market in the world, with homes costing 6.1 times the average annual income. Many experts have therefore predicted that it can only be a matter of time before the Australian property market crashes. ...

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