FROM THE PAPERS
Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin.
Date posted: Monday, November 17, 2014
FINANCIAL TIMES
Financial Times:” ‘Death bond’ investors face heavy losses”. UK investors in three so-called ‘death bond’ funds have been told they may lose up to 70 per cent of their original investment and cannot access their money for at least three years. Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” ‘Pension bank accounts’ played down”. Savers expecting to access their pension funds like a bank account when radical reforms come into force next year face disappointment as leading providers warn they are unlikely to offer withdrawal facilities immediately.
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Financial Times:” HMRC personal tax investigations bring in record haul”. Increased scrutiny of residential landlords and online traders has delivered a jump in exchequer revenues from investigations into self-assessed taxpayers. Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” HMRC curbs negotiations over tax debts”. Taxpayers’ ability to negotiate with HM Revenue & Customs has been significantly curtailed as internal rules act as a straitjacket on the authority, tax professionals have warned. Click here to go directly to the article
THE TIMES
The Times:” Too old at 58 to help daughter own a home”. Parents are being banned from helping out their children
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The Times:” How to ensure your baby is a millionaire before hitting 50″. New research reveals what’s possible if you invest in pensions and Isa’s from birth to 18
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The Times:” My schoolboy error was to invest in a pension “. Hunter Davies listened to his accountant and his money ended up with Equitable Life
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The Times:” New pensioners lose out as state pockets £30m a year”. People who retire are losing about £30m a year in state pension benefits because of a delay in the first week’s payment, it can be revealed today.
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HELPFUL HINTS
1. LINKS TO ARTICLES:
We have now provided direct links to the articles referred to in the article. These can be accessed by click on the “To go directly to the article click here” at the end of each article summary
2. REQUIREMENT TO SUBSCRIBE TO SITES:
As some Techlink users will be aware, many of the broadsheet newspapers that are traditionally covered in our From the Papers bulletin, are changing (or have changed) their free online access to articles.
Currently the Financial Times and Weekend Financial Times only allows access to view 8 articles a month free, then requiring the user to subscribe to their online service. From 1 July 2010 The Times, Saturday Times and Sunday Times articles are no longer available for free online. Instead a daily or monthly fee will have to be paid to access the articles.
We are aware of the inconvenience this will cause to our users. Unfortunately, due to the stringent copyright rules enforced by the newspapers we are not allowed to copy the articles onto our bulletin to make them available to Opus Gold users, thus our only option is to put a direct link to the article on the newspapers own website.
Although we will continue to produce From the Papers bulletins linking to these articles, users should be aware that access to many will now be blocked unless a personal subscription to the newspapers site is taken.
Once again we apologise for this inconvenience but this is something outside of our control.
QUICK LINKS
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