Harvey Dorset

1 day ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Harvey Dorset

Investors should sit up and take notice of why private equity firms are snapping up cheap UK smaller companies, fund managers say. The UK's stock market listed smaller companies are repeatedly becoming the target of takeover activity, as bargain share prices and a lack of interest from investors offer a chance for private equity buyers to grab value.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Harvey Dorset

Our house is in my husband's name. He bought it before we were married 33 years ago and we have never got around to adding my name. When one of us dies, would my husband and I still be able to inherit each other's residence nil-rate bands of £175,000 each for inheritance tax purposes? What do I need to do to make sure that I do benefit from this?

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Harvey Dorset

'I'd like to be a FTSE 100 company,' Andrew Webley, founder of The Smarter Web Company, told This is Money last month, as the firm launched its retail offering on the Aquis Exchange. Two weeks later it looks like this dream is edging slowly closer to being within his grasp. We spoke to Webley as the Smarter Web Company launched its IPO with a price of 2.5 pence per share, raising £1million through its IPO alone.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Harvey Dorset

Our four-year-old son is autistic. We want to ensure he gets the family house in the future, but do not have the cash flow to pay for the inheritance tax bill. The house is worth around £1.3million, and the estate also includes a storefront with a flat above it worth £1.1million, and two flats worth £1million combined. I live with my son in the United States, but he is both a UK and a US citizen. His father lives in the UK, and the estate is in his mother's name.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Harvey Dorset

Think back to your school days – how much did you learn about personal finance: mortgages, credit cards and loans? Before 2014, this information didn't form part of the national curriculum, so understandably the answer for many might be that they didn't learn very much. Going back a decade, I was still at school and therefore should have been on the receiving end of some of this education, albeit in its early days.