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Financial Focus: Spring 2024
In this issue...As the advent of spring brings not only longer days but also a new tax year, there is still much to get to grips with in the fallout from the Spring Budget. Although most of the measures that appeared were thoroughly teased, there were still a few...
BT has announced its decision to withdraw the Redcare service with effect from August 2025
One of the UK’s leading alarm signalling systems, BT Redcare, will shut down from 1 August 2025 leaving thousands of customers to find a suitable alternative. Customers whose intruder and fire alarms are connected to BT’s Redcare signalling system should act quickly...
Rupees, Pounds or Dollars? The Asian Art Market in Review
Guest blog from one of our preferred valuation partners, Doerr Dallas Valuations. Author: Laura Williams, Indian Art Specialist. Nobody anticipated the extreme highs of the past few weeks. Particularly in what may potentially be the worst recession of our lifetime. In...
Video witnessing for wills
The Government is changing rules to allow remote witnessing of wills via video calls in England and Wales. It is already legal in Scotland, but not yet in Northern Ireland. New legislation in September 2020 will backdate the measure to 31 January 2020, but two...
Autumn 2020 | In Focus
With people starting to return to the office and schools and universities reopening, it appears that life is beginning to tentatively resume its usual rhythms this autumn. As the longer term effects of the lockdown become apparent, we look at some short term future...
Sharp fall for dividends
UK dividends were down more than 50% in the second quarter of 2020. The pandemic has hit the global economy hard and devasted the dividend payments of many leading UK companies. Between April and June 2020, total UK dividend payments were 57.2% lower than in the...
Things are slowly returning to normal…
As Government lockdown measures continue to ease for most sectors, we have started our phased return to the office, operating a skeleton staff throughout the week. Our switchboard number 020 8681 4994 is fully operational and individual members of the team can still...
Summer Statement 2020
An unprecedented Summer Statement was delivered today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak. Although the economy is starting to open up gradually after its pandemic-enforced quarantining, the chancellor's statement is an attempt to stem the damage from a...
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