The new tax year is fast approaching – let’s make it your best yet. Here at GreenSky, we’re looking forward to getting you prepared for the new year. No, we’re not going to book you a cab and buy you Prosecco – we don’t mean that new year. We’re all about 6th April,...
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What Does High Inflation Mean For Me?
We’re sure you’ve already heard all about inflation in the UK. After all, it’s been one of the biggest topics in the news over the past few weeks. While many of you will understand what inflation means, we’re sure, it can be hard to figure out what high inflation will...
Environmental, Social and Governance 101: What is ESG Investing?
Given all the recent headlines about COP26, we thought we’d talk about one way you can help support a move towards a more sustainable future. ESG investing, which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance, is a style of investing which focuses on different...
Why You Should Start Saving Into Your Pension Early
Here’s the thing. We know you all know how important pensions are. We’ve written about it before on this blog. Lots of other clever people are talking about it. So, we know that it’s something that many people, even young people, are very aware of. However, we’ve had...
Saving for Future Generations: ISAs, LISAs and JISAs
Saving for the future is an essential part of financial planning. It’s basically the whole reason we do it. Whether it’s saving for your first house, to top up a pension, or to leave something for your children – having financial goals for the future is why we pay...
Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) and Investments: The Regulations
Here’s another guest post from Ann-Marie Matthews, Associate Solicitor at Barker Gotelee. In this article, she’ll be covering how an attorney under a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) has to manage the investments of the person they’re acting for. It’s important stuff,...
What Happens to Your State Pension When You Die?
Ann-Marie Matthews, Associate Solicitor at Barker Gotelee. Today, she’ll be going over what happens to your state pension when you die, and how you can claim state pension if your spouse has died. The first thing to remind you of here is that there are actually...
Trusts: When Might You Choose to Establish One?
Here at Greensky Wealth, we’ve been working closely with other professionals to make sure we offer our customers a full range of legal and financial support. We’ve partnered with Ann-Marie Matthews, Associate Solicitor at Barker Gotelee, who’s written a series of...
What’s a Statutory Will and Why Are They Important?
Here’s the latest article in our series from Ann-Marie Matthews, Associate Solicitor at Barker Gotelee. In today’s post, she’ll be covering all the details you need to know about statutory Wills, what makes them different to traditional Wills and why they’re so...
Could your Life Insurance be more tax efficient?
Having covered a whole host of facets concerning Life Insurance in the past few blogs, here’s where we start to get into the nitty gritty. And this is also the same point that we start to demonstrate a little of the magic of Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs)....