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...
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...
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...
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)....
6 Things to Consider Before You Buy Life Insurance
If you are a blog regular, then you’ll know we’ve covered all of the ins and outs of Life Insurance. We’ve looked at what it is and why you need it, the different types of cover available, whether or not critical illness is critical, and finally, how you could make...
Inheritance Tax: What’s New?
Continuing our series of articles from Ann-Marie, Associate Solicitor at Barker Gotelee, here she shares a handy summary of inheritance tax including a peek at possible changes to the rules which may be coming. What is inheritance tax? Inheritance Tax (IHT) is a tax...
Income Protection Insurance: Do You Really Need It?
If your family is anything like ours here at GreenSky, you’ve probably had similar financial advice dished out to you over the years. Something about a pension, something about the dangers of credit cards, and some kind of sage advice about saving for a rainy day -...
Financial Protection: Why Get Your IFA Involved?
You insure your home, your car, your watch collection, but are you insuring your most important asset? Your finances. It’s all very well and good building up your wealth but if you’re not protecting it, you could end up swindling your fortune away covering life’s...
Is Critical Illness Cover Really Critical?
Critical Illness cover is often seen as a Life Insurance or mortgage add-on, much in the same way that you can tick the box to add the hire car to the hotel, or the accidental damage cover to the TV, or the onion rings to your burger. But, while there is a certain...