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Targeting a strong return to fund care home costs

Our reader wants a return of 6 per cent a year to fund care home costs

Skipping a generation could be more tax-efficient

Will passing on assets to your grandchildren rather than your children help keep wealth in the family?

A coal collapse, a decoupling and Doha

What does recent news mean for the patterns in the fossil fuel tea leaves?

Broaden your holdings to maintain your returns

Our reader should invest his wife's portfolio in a wider range of assets, including fixed-interest, to maintain good returns

Avoid the pitfalls of pension freedoms

What you need to know to avoid making a costly mistake from the pension freedoms introduced last year

Assessing the risks worth taking

Our reader wants to achieve better returns even if that means higher risk

Claim the New State Pension or risk late payment

If you do not claim the New State Pension you risk late payment

Last chance for a double pension contribution

For this tax year only you may be able to contribute up to £80,000 to your pension

Avoiding the taper charge

Anyone earning over £110,000 could be caught by new tax taper rules due to the inclusion of other sources of 'income'

Too much cash to achieve the targeted return

Our reader wants a 4 per cent return but to achieve this he will need to decrease his cash allocation