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About Bella Caridade-Ferreira

Bella has 20 years’ experience in the research and analysis of the investment industry. She set up Fundscape (comparetheplatform's owner) in 2010. Before Fundscape, she worked for Thomson Reuters as Global Head of Research and Publications (Lipper) and was the author of numerous publications and reports. Bella has a master’s degree in International Business and is fluent in four languages. She is particularly fussy about grammar and punctuation, and loves going to the theatre, disco dancing and pub quizzes. @bella_caridade @fundscapeuk

Parallel universe at HMRC

Steve Webb, Director of Policy for Royal London, has accused HMRC of ‘living in a parallel universe’ for refusing to understand that people can’t submit

Property is a gold mine… for HMRC

Due to changes in taxation, the profitability of the buy-to-let market has tightened. As a result, landlords are offloading their properties in their droves. According

Spending the house equity on foreign holidays

SunLife asked 1,000 homeowners what they’d do if they had to choose between staying in their family home but never holidaying outside the UK again,

Weddings are costly for guests

Friends’ weddings can be a funeral for your own finances. According to AA/Populus research, one in ten guests spend more money attending other people’s weddings

The loyalty penalty

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has recently published recommendations for protecting consumers from poorly performing financial services products. Long-term customers might be paying more

Babyboomers or babybusters?

A couple of weeks ago I chaired an Altus event called Learning to ski, lifetime mortgages and other ways to spend the kids’ inheritance.

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