Many of our clients will be familiar with property funds. Investing in commercial – rather than domestic – property, these funds have been part of many clients’ portfolios, typically providing a balance to equity funds.  That, of course, was before Covid-19. When the UK went into lockdown in March last year many property funds had...Read More

“Generation Rent,” declared Rishi Sunak in his Budget speech, “will become Generation Buy.” Had the House of Commons been full, this announcement would no doubt have been greeted with loud cheers by Conservative backbenchers. At last, someone is doing something to help young people get on the housing ladder… So what did the Chancellor announce?...Read More

The last twelve months have been notable for many things: one of them, sadly, has been the rapid increase in cybercrime as criminals look to prey on the lonely and vulnerable.  To take one very simple example, the BBC reported last month that romance fraud – cheating someone out of money by pretending to want...Read More