A burning issue
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com Philip Bushill-Matthews MEP and Conservative Spokesman for Employment and Social Affairs. THE AMOUNT of waste produced each year in Europe is equivalent to half a tonne
A tale of two central banks
By: David Johnson
Equity release and home reversion
By: John Westwood blacktower.financial@portugalresident.com OVER THE past decade property prices in Southern Europe and, in particular, Portugal and Spain, have gone up substantially. While this is a most welcome development
High inflation can damage your financial security
By: Bill Blevins bill.blevins@portugalresident.com INFLATION IS such an insidious destroyer of wealth that I sometimes wonder why it is not given a wealth warning. It can be likened to a
UK inheritance net spreads ever wider
By: Bill Blevins bill.blevins@portugalresident.com IT CAN’T have been more than a generation or two ago when inheritance tax (IHT) wasn’t featured in most people’s everyday conversation. Today, it is. When
Helping to safegaurd your wealth in Portugal
By: Bill Blevins
Euro ties creaking at the joints
By: David Johnson
Going global through diversification
By: Bill Blevins Email: bill.blevins@portugalresident.com ONE OF the basic rules of successful investing is diversification. International investment is a well-established concept in investment management and most investors appreciate the opportunities
UK Government dashes inheritance dreams
By: JOHN WESTWOOD Email: blacktower.financial@portugalresident.com New 82 per cent tax on pension funds GORDON BROWN issued his pre-budget report on December 10, 2006 in which he introduced several new anti
EDP needs competition to lower electricity prices
By: CHRIS GRAEME Email: chrisgraeme@sapo.pt THE GOVERNMENT has agreed to allow Portuguese electricity monopoly EDP to increase its prices by six per cent in 2007. However, despite the price hikes,