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Are you asked to justify why a pension expert is required?  It seems defendants, and the Courts, are often reluctant to accept the need for a pension expert, on defined benefit pension schemes in particular.  These are the schemes where the pension and lump sum depend on years’ membership and salaries, rather than the value […]

It is of course, a trick question – a periodical payments case, is always a periodical payments case. Why should that not always be true? Periodical payments represent compensation paid without risk for life, free of tax and appropriately proofed against inflation. An award inclusive of a substantial annual income, is also far easier to […]

At great risk of overusing the word ‘unprecedented,’ it is times such as these where clients receiving personal injury payments, need to consider the effect of their award money, on their current and future household income. Some view personal injury trusts as purely for clients who are currently in receipt of state benefits. In a […]

Uncertainty and Caution… Our last note was a number of weeks ago toward the end of March and whilst we’ve been busy advising, researching, analysing & sense checking for any blind spots in financial plans and portfolio strategies we’ve also adhered to our principle that if we don’t have anything additive to say we don’t […]

On the back of extraordinary moves in markets over the past few weeks, we have seen several clients get in touch to discuss their investments. The Nestor Investment Committee are pleased to provide this Q&A which aims to cover some of the key points clients are concerned about and offer some thoughts on the outlook […]

We are all fully aware of the significant impact that the spread of Coronavirus is having on normal life throughout the UK and globally. This is set to continue for the next few weeks at least. At Nestor, we have been following events and the fast moving news. As a business, the well-being of our […]