Ellis Bates Financial Advisers
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Managing Director and Chartered Financial Planner, Michael Cope, discusses tax planning in retirement. For more information on our retirement planning services or our tax planning services, please get in touch.…
Time for a tax health check? With the current tax year having begun on 6 April 2022, the clock is ticking and it is important to utilise all the tax…
What is asset allocation and diversification? Asset allocation involves diversifying your investments among different assets, such as equities, bonds, property and cash. Asset allocation may change depending on what works…
Retiring early can give you that change of lifestyle you’ve been craving, but requires some careful planning. Financial Adviser, Andy King, discusses how he helped a client by discovering that…
Worried about generating a retirement income? More over-50s returning to work amid cost of living crisis. Older workers have been leaving the jobs market in their droves over the past…
Are you feeling uncertain on the way forward to your retirement? We offer a range of retirement planning services, including a handy retirement calculator to see how much you need to…
Regional Manager and Financial Planner, Dax Bayley, shares how he enhanced someone’s life by using cashflow modelling to help them to retire earlier than they had planned. Find Your Local…
Funding the lifestyle you want – get your retirement plans in motion One of the most common concerns among those approaching retirement is whether they will have enough money to last…
IHT receipts totalled £5.3 billion between April and December 2022, £0.7bn more than in the same period the previous year Due to rising property prices more of us are falling…
Inheritance tax receipts reach £6.1 bn. What if I could make my wealth more tax-efficient? We all want to leave a legacy and make sure the ones we care about…
The UK currently holds £15.2 trillion pounds in household wealth Private pensions represent the biggest single component of this wealth – at around 42% of the total (£6.4 trillion) Agreeing…
Divorce is often referred to as one of the most traumatic and stressful events anyone can go through, and it can also be a costly experience. Financial Planner, Carol Lammy-Steele…