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UK Families Pay Record Levels Inheritance Tax

5th January 201731st August 2016 by Jan Oliff

HMTreasuryLogoFigures released by HMRC today show that they collected a record £4.7 billion in Inheritance Tax (IHT) payments during … …read more…

Categories Blog, Business Matters Tags Financial-Advice, IHT, inheritance tax, investment, Later Life Advice, Money, pensions, Sustainable Investing

Promised Jan a Rose Garden

17th May 201619th April 2016 by Jan Oliff

Bamboo-01

April 2016

We now see the garden starting to mature.
The roses are well settled in and Jan weaves her creativity, re-organises some plants and adds others.

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Categories House & Garden Tags garden, roses

Salt Welcomes Julia Dreblow as Ethical Finance Columnist

1st October 201519th August 2015 by Jan Oliff

Although financial advisers are required to understand their clients’ … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Business Women, Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, Green Issues, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing, Women in business

Great Aunt not planned for payment Inheritance Tax

1st October 201510th August 2015 by Jan Oliff

I had a call this morning from a long standing client.  Her son is in … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Business Women, Financial-Advice, investment, Money, Women in business

Deliver simple advice to the less well-off

1st October 20153rd August 2015 by Jan Oliff

There has long been concern amongst the financial community about … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Financial-Advice, investment, Money, Politics, Regulation, Women in business

Investment Diversification is the Key

1st October 201528th July 2015 by Jan Oliff

As an adviser during the early years of this century, the fashionable thing was … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags economy, Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing, Women in business

A Moral or Ethical View but still want to Make Money

1st October 201527th July 2015 by Jan Oliff
In the last few days I have read articles about the lack of transparency in drug trials. A potential outcome being that we are not always taking the most efficient drug for the medical problem we suffer.

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Categories Business Matters Tags Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, Green Issues, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing, Women in business

Care Costs Cap in England to be Delayed until 2020

1st October 201522nd July 2015 by Jan Oliff

Whilst still “firmly committed” to cap care costs, the Department of Health said … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Care Costs, Care Homes, investment, Residential Care, Retirement

SRI Services Launches New Site

1st October 201513th July 2015 by Jan Oliff

I hope it is now quite well known how much I feel passionate about … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags economy, Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, Green Issues, investment, Malvern Women in Business, Money, pensions, Sustainable Investing, Women in business, Worcester, Worcestershire UK

Gender Gap in Pensions and Why I became a Financial Adviser

1st October 201526th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

The recent publication of research showing the European wide gap in … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Financial-Advice, investment, Money, pensions, Women in business

Decarboning your investments

1st October 201522nd June 2015 by Jan Oliff

Decarboning your investments, pensions, ISAs and trust funds,  is not just … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing

Earlier end to subsidies for new UK onshore wind farms

23rd August 201622nd June 2015 by Jan Oliff

There are currently 5,061 onshore turbines in the UK, producing … …read more…

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One Third of Over-65s in England Never use it!

1st October 201522nd June 2015 by Jan Oliff

Is this a problem created by planners or an obvious outcome from the past … …read more…

Categories Opinion Tags bus, train, transport

The truth behind sustainable investing

1st October 201515th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

Sustainability Investing and how it can work for the triple bottom … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, green, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing

My two main themes

1st October 201515th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

Anyone familiar with me and my articles will recognise that I have two … …read more…

Categories Ecology Tags economy, Ethical Investing, Financial-Advice, investment, Money, Sustainable Investing, Women in business

Pension Providers’ u-turn Disappointing

1st October 20159th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

Pensions Minister Ros Altmann has expressed her “disappointment” with pension … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Financial-Advice, investment, Money, pensions

Can older women can solve economic problems?

1st October 20156th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

We once admired older men who continued to run the country, the … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Business Women, Financial-Advice, pensions, Women in business

How ageing workers can boost the economy

1st October 20156th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

A retirement revolution is needed in the Western world. As life … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags Business Women, Financial-Advice, investment, Later Life, Older workers, pensions, Women in business

The Social Investment Academy

1st October 20156th June 2015 by Jan Oliff

On the 4th June 2015 I had the pleasure of attending the Social … …read more…

Categories Business Matters Tags economy, Financial-Advice, Money, Sustainable Investing

Oxford graduates ‘give back’ degree to protest over fossil fuels investment

1st October 201527th May 2015 by Jan Oliff

Almost 70 Oxford alumni have symbolically handed back their … …read more…

Categories Ecology Tags Ecology, global warming, green, Green Issues, Polution, Sustainable Investing
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FotBlogMouse140Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

FotBlogMouse140 Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

FotBlogMouse140China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

FotBlogMouse140Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV 
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

 


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Driving an Electric Car

Most people drive less than 40 miles on a journey, including commuting. So, with a comfortable range for a Leaf of over 80 miles on a full charge and a possible range of rather more than 90, one charge at home, over night, gives enough for the following day's driving.
But there are times we want to drive much further so here is a clip from Chris Ramsay about driving very long distances.

Driving an electric car is so unlike being a petrol head
- it is a way of travelling that is more relaxing even in traffic;
and it is so much quieter, cleaner and very, very economical.

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