My interest in longevity was peeked by a friend, a Chartered Surveyor who looked after large Scottish Estates. He shared a completely different way of thinking about life -where ‘family’ was more important than the individual and every member was ‘expected’ to do what they could for the common good. The Chinese express the same […]
At the end of life it is really easy to spot the finite and infinite players…
Knowing why you are doing something is the secret to success
The current pandemic is driving change beyond our wildest imagination – hold on to your hats as life returns to a new normal!
As we all live longer this advice has never been so important…
Estate Planning is all about building trust with the next generation
Baby ‘gloomers’ are reaching retirement age and many think they have a problem. Often they do, but not necessarily the problem they imagined. Baby ‘gloomers’ are the younger siblings that hang off the coattails of the Baby Boomer – they lack the brash confidence of their swinging sixties elders. For them ‘Free Love’ was replaced […]
What are the real benefits of Estate Planning
Few people ever take the time to find out if they have ‘enough’ and, as a result never get around to putting what they have to go use – learn to do this and you can change your life – and the lives of those that are important to you
Raising money for the public purse is never popular while demand for increased expenditure grows every louder. Revenue staff are charged with squaring this circle and do so using three income streams – the challenge, as always, is to optimize revenue. Each stream has limits: Taxing the Living– provides the largest income stream through income […]