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Young Athlete – Big Dreams

What happens when you achieve your dreams both financially and personally but don’t know how to manage them? Young sportspeople have clear goals in sight from a very young age. The training and support provided to that young person to get them to professional level is all consuming. There is often little time to teach them how to manage their…
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February 2, 2022
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Four financial tips for sports professionals

As someone who was myself a semi-professional ice-hockey player and snowboarder, I can relate directly to the challenges faced by professional sportspeople: the weekly pressure to perform, the intensity of the training, and the delicate balance between sport and family/social life. For those who are fully-fledged professional sports people, there’s obviously an even higher level of intensity.  To some extent,…
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January 21, 2022
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It pays to know which ISAs will serve you best

It’s over twenty years since ISAs were launched and they remain one of the most popular ways to save and invest. Your annual ISA allowance is a valuable opportunity to help grow your money and shelter it from any further liability to Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax. However, to counter the threat of inflation, you need to invest it…
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January 21, 2022
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Understanding the pros and cons of pension ‘freedoms’

The reputable investment firm AJ Bell has recently set out in a press release results of research it has undertaken indicating that, on average, regular annual withdrawals from a drawdown pension arrangement, under the pension freedoms are 4.7% of fund value. That’s almost a third lower than 12 months ago. Also, savers appear to be reacting to market volatility and…
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January 21, 2022