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5 proven retirement strategies for business owners
By castlegateadmin | Retirement | No Comments
As a business owner, it might be hard to imagine your future without your business. After all, you have spent many years building it up and making it a success. Yet a sustainable business eventually…
Critical illness cover – your FAQs, answered
By castlegateadmin | Protection | No Comments
Critical illness cover can be a powerful addition to an individual’s wider plan for financial protection. Increasingly, people are recognising the potential impact that illness and injury can have on someone’s wealth (e.g. average UK…
Lump sum vs regular contributions
By castlegateadmin | Investments | No Comments
As an investor, one of the biggest questions you may face is how to invest a pot of money (e.g. from an inheritance windfall). Should you invest it all at once, as a lump sum,…
The Autumn Statement 2023
By castlegateadmin | Financial Planning | No Comments
Jeremy Hunt delivered the Autumn Statement on 22 November following weeks of speculation about potential tax cuts. The headline measure, a reduction to National Insurance Contributions was something of a surprise. Beyond this, economic measures…