Today, on the 8th March 2025 we honour and celebrate not just the tremendous women in our team here at Berkshire IFA, but the incredible achievements of women around the world and recognize the ongoing journey toward gender equality. Let’s collectively continue this journey, especially when considering the pensions gap that still exists in the…

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We are delighted to announce that we are launching a new and improved benefits package on the 1st June 2024. This will include even more stuff, and don’t worry everyone still gets access to our Company Tuck Shop… yes you heard it… we regularly feast on delicious treats in the office! To make sure we…

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Why Its Important for Women to Seek Financial Advice? Today on International Women’s Day, we would like to take a moment to shine a spotlight on why it’s so important for Women in particular to seek financial advice, in person, from a Financial Planner rather than using one of the plethora of online tools that…

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Following the budget statement earlier this week, there are a few points that are worth highlighting. As financial planners the most notable point is that the top thresholds for income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax as well as other thresholds and limits, remain unchanged, which means more people will suffer this as inflation,…

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We would like to say a big thank you to all our Clients. Berkshire IFA Limited will be appearing in The Times newspaper this Saturday (26th March 2022), along with an article that talks through the benefits of financial advice, and then lists the very best financial advisers in the country. This means those with…

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UK Consumer prices are rising this year – this has been well reported across almost all media outlets. What may be more insightful, is that while UK inflation, a key factor in consumer prices, is predicted to peak in Spring of 2022 at around 7% or 8%, its likely to start to fall back as…

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For those of you that are in the advantageous situation where you can plan how much taxable income to take, or have a second smaller income, it may interest you to learn, that in many cases you can also make a single pension contribution, linked to this smaller income. The great thing is that this…

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Tax relief on Pension contributions – it’s one avenue to saving for your retirement Millions of people are approaching retirement without adequate pension provisions in place… you may ask you self what is enough?  Well enough depends on many factors but suffice to say that there are many avenues that we, as UK residents, can…

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Life is about so much more than just pensions, so today let’s focus on what’s real, and that’s the experience of reaching a UEFA Euro 2020 Semi-final. So, to get us all in the mood, we have shared some clips from the BBC coverage of the England v Ukraine match. We wish both England and…

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