DIY Investor Magazine
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2015 Issue
5
being wooed with the Help to Buy ISA with the
government adding £50 to every £200 subscribed
subject to certain conditions.
The much anticipated pension freedoms have
received an additional frisson with Mr Osborne’s
announcement that from April 2016 five million
pensioners will have access to their annuity without
paying the previous, punitive tax rate of 55%; it is
predicted that up to 250,000 will choose to cash in
their annuity, paying tax at the marginal rate.
DIY Investor Magazine brings you the usual mix of
expert authors offering their analysis on how to get
the most income and growth from your portfolio.
Conditions remain volatile of course.
There’s a general election on the horizon, the
outcome of which is anybody’s guess, and
continued uncertainty on the world economic
stage - not least the still troubled Eurozone.
But there has been good news. UK growth
remains steady, unemployment has fallen, jobs
have hit an all time high and - at long last - the
FTSE 100 has closed higher than its previous peak
back in 1999!
The leading index is a very different beast from
the one found on the eve of the millennium - a dot
com crash, the credit crunch and a period of rapid
globalisation has seen to that. But while it had
taken longer than its US counterpart to recover lost
ground, the subsequent breach of 7000 bodes
well.
We have received very encouraging feedback
to the video content that has been embedded
in recent issues and the good news is that this
is currently being collated to build the definitive
educational resource for self directed investors
with DIY Investor Magazine now available to an
audience of almost 600,000.
As always get in touch if there’s anything you’d
like to see on the magazine.
In the meantime, happy new tax year.
THERE’S A GENERAL ELECTION ON THE
HORIZON, THE OUTCOME OF WHICH IS
ANYBODY’S GUESS, AND CONTINUED
UNCERTAINTY ON THE WORLD ECONOMIC STAGE
- NOT LEAST THE STILL TROUBLED EUROZONE.
