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Protecting your children

Most people wait until they accumulate wealth or enter the winter of their life before considering doing their will’s but in reality you should regard the importance of writing a will as essential as soon as you become a parent. In the event where both parents were to pass at the same time or more…

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PPM Welcome Emma Green

PPM would like to welcome Emma Green to the team as their Client Review Manager. The contents of this article is for information purposes only and represent the opinion of Pryor Portfolio Management Limited only. No action should be taken on the basis of this article alone. We always recommend you seek more detailed independent…

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188 – A budget of non starters

The Spring Budget has become a victim of the snap election. Philip Hammond has not had much luck with what he said would be his first and last Spring Budget. His proposal to increase Class 4 national insurance contributions from April 2018 survived only a week before being dropped. Then when the Finance Bill was…

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PPM Wish you a tree-mendous Christmas time

Pryor Portfolio Management always take an extended period of time off at Christmas time as people are generally too busy to see us! We use it as an opportunity to undergo importance maintenance work within the business and recharge our batteries ready for what already looks like a busy 2017. In usual PPM fashion we…

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162 – Date set for Autumn statement

The Treasury has confirmed that the Autumn Statement will be on 23 November. When George Osborne was replaced as Chancellor in July, his successor, Philip Hammond, deliberately avoided taking any action. He left the immediate economic response to Mark Carney and the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England, which duly cut interest rates…

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Brexit Update

Well we all made it through the first week post the Brexit vote. Let's not go over old ground except to say that the relative calm of financial markets has more to do with the promise of more QE than anything else. Housebuilders and banks have come under sustained pressure, but like many cyclicals there…

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Leaving Europe

Good Evening So we have made it through the third day after the historic vote to leave Europe. The FTSE finished 200 points down on Friday and 156 points today but gained today by 158 points. We would have taken that at 6.00 Friday morning! Unsurprisingly the pound has fallen to its lowest levels since…

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Budget Summary 2016

This was the third budget within the space of 12 months. It threatened to be the most difficult of the trio because of constraints imposed by June's EU referendum and disappointing economic numbers. Nevertheless the Chancellor managed to produce several surprises, including net tax cuts in 2017/18 and 2018/19 before reaching his often repeated goal…

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Brexit

Pryor Portfolio Management run a range of risk rated actively managed investment funds. We have successfully steered our funds during the recent wave of volatility so we thought it may be prudent to give our strategic opinion of the next few months leading to the vote on the 23rd June. Brexit The UK EU referendum…

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Good Elf this christmas

    The doors of PPM are now closed for another year, when they re open in 2016 we will be celebrating our tenth year in business which is very exciting (well to us anyway!).   Thank you as always for your support of our business and wish you the best of possible Christmas times.…

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