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HMRC challenged to clarify rules on P2P SIPP Investments
SIPP (Self-Invested Personal Pension) providers are warning that existing HMRC rules are prohibiting them from permitting customers to invest in peer…
Roll over pawnbrokers - Unbolted’s rates can’t be beaten
When you’ve decided to freelance as a creative marketing designer, you suddenly discover just how expensive it is to equip yourself with a powerful M…
How a classic car saved Daniel’s bacon
Daniel is at last recovering, physically and financially, after an exceptionally difficult year. A 37-year-old IT contractor, disaster struck late la…
Somerset art dealers top ArtReview magazine’s Power 100 list
It was impossible for any art dealer who wasn’t in a coma last month to miss the recent news that world-renowned Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei w…
How a handbag financed a new gas boiler
How about a horror story for winter? It goes like this: it’s the middle of winter, the weather is spitefully frosty and you wake up to find you have …
A car, a car, my guitar for a car!
Meet Levi. He’s 22, recently graduated from university, and has started working for an insurance company. But he’s facing a big problem: he needs a c…
How to Buy It
Expert Tips on Watches
All watch brands with a very few exceptions will depreciate immediately after purchase. There are a few such as the grand complication Patek Philippes which are in such short supply and high demand that they can immmediately be sold for a profit.
Reissued retro - the new cool!
On the 25th December 1969, the mechanical watch became obsolete when Seiko launched their first commercial quartz wrist watch. Nearly 50 years on and that obsolete technology is in remarkably rude health, and new watch launches are stepping back in time.
Cash, Cheque or Rolex..?
Urban legend is that British special forces members travel to remote parts of the world with steel Rolexes as emergency 'tradable community', but a more modern take on the "Rolex as currency" is the practise of buying a sought-after model to take abroad instead of carrying cash.