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,
Reaching out to women’s institutes
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews Email: philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com One of the final pieces of legislation voted through the European Parliament at the end of 2006, was perhaps the most important – and certainly