Tag Archive: SIFA

BLOG FROM SIFA – Market timing and “ETFs”

May 1, 2018 4:30 pm

“Exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) make no sense unless they are vehicles for market timing”.  So wrote investment commentator John Authers...

BLOG SIFA News – The value of on-shore trusts

November 1, 2017 9:58 am

On-shore trusts were very popular for family wealth planning until 2006, when inheritance tax law was changed. Until that date,...

BLOG SIFA News – How HMRC catches cheats

October 1, 2017 9:32 am

HMRC’s efforts to clamp down on the “hidden economy” focusing on small businesses and particular professions which might benefit from...

BLOG SIFA News – Tax advantages of marriage

September 1, 2017 10:45 am

The number of unmarried cohabiting couples more than doubled in the 20 years between 1996 and 2006, from 1.5 million...

BLOG SIFA News – Never had it so good?

August 1, 2017 10:47 am

In 1957 the then Prime minister Harold Macmillan told his electorate “You’ve never had it so good”. In retrospect, the...