Legal & Financial

Why it’s more important than ever to plan for your retirement. It could last longer than you think One of the blessings of the latter part of the last century and early 21st century, is the rapid increase in lifespans. Retirement is, for many, now a long journey to look …

Do you remember the days in the not so distant past where you could kick back on a Sunday morning with a stack of newspapers and a pot of coffee and slowly work your way through the papers?. You could spend a few luxurious hours wading your way through well …

Humanity has been serving and using the  the sea since ancient times and for different purposes, which have been varying in importance according to technological development and the needs of the specific different  periods of History. It was always a link to trade and communication as well as a source …

Inexperienced investors can start to feel uneasy as bull markets mature – a glance at history should help calm the nerves. According to Woody Allen, 80% of success is just showing up. Investors have felt the force of that argument over the past nine-and-a-half years, as stock markets have clocked …

A mortgage is a real right on a movable or immovable property made liable for the performance of an obligation; that means,  a lien in a property created as a form of security for a loan or payment of a debt and terminated on payment of said loan or debt. …

You would think that the Spanish countryside ought to be peppered all over the place with arrays of solar panels, but it isn’t. It’s one of Europe’s sunniest countries, and we live in a time where investment is flooding into solar power, and the pace of improvement in the technology …

Making an early start is the most important factor in saving for the future. Saving for the future can often come well down the list of financial priorities, behind paying off debts, paying a mortgage and financing a child’s education. However, the longer you put it off, the more you’ll …

Brexit (In the remote chance you haven’t heard is shorthand for Britain’s exit from the European Union.) is awfully complicated, it turns out, way more complicated than almost anybody anticipated. The countdown clock to Brexit day on March the 29th next year is ticking relentlessly and there is still much …

Maritime or Admiralty Law can be defined as the set of rules that regulate commercial relations, in a extensive sense, developed in the maritime field; in other words what we call “sea rules”. This is a more extensive concept than that of commercial law and that presents the following general …

Research supports assumptions that would-be retirees are saving too little, taking too little risk and have limited knowledge. Research published by The Wisdom Council (TWC), suggests that cash and property are trusted more than pensions, with some people seeing these options as “safer” and in the case of property “a better …