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A Sipp qualifies for the same tax breaks as a conventional pension, but you need a minimum of £500 a month to invest or an existing pension fund of at least £50,000. We have no immediate concerns that they are going to fall or plummet.”Self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) are one way of investing in commercial property, along with shares, bonds and cash. “These yields are being produced by rental income on office buildings: if you think the economy will hold up, this will be very positive for yields. “I think the yields on commercial property will hold up in coming months,” he explains. And this is all framed by grandiose parades where a gigantic gauzy fan descends and everyone marches around to the strains of a pre-recorded orchestra.Unequivocally bad? Not quite.

As the Duchess of Berwick, Googie Withers is refreshingly twinkly but totally misses the dowager’s ghastly imperiousness. David Yelland’s Lord W seems stolidly decent, never nastily strict. But no, she rattles – with about as much heightened passion as an omnibus – through Lady Windermere’s fraught, melodramatic monologues.It’s the areas of ethical ambivalence in Wilde’s characters that make this play engrossing Yet Hall pinpoints few of those. She’s like a frozen fish on her chaise longue, faking shock with her mouth agape for what seems like minutes One might assume she’s imitating 19th-century acting styles. Joely Richardson, though in a splendid gown, is exposed as a desperately poor actress. Sad to say, Peter Hall’s production makes you want to sue for divorce on grounds of neglect This is a flagrantly underdirected, star-studded evening.

One is meant to discern the ambiguity of Wilde’s subtitle – A Play About A Good Woman – when the outraged Lady W determines to elope with an admirer and it’s Mrs E who saves her. Regarded as a scandal, she’s keeping company with Lord Windermere. By contrast her estranged, unrecognised mother is re-entering high society under the name of Mrs Erlynne. The eponymous young wife in Oscar Wilde’s Victorian morality play cherishes her puritanical streak.

The yield from commercial property is about 7.2 per cent per year, while the average income from shares is a less impressive 2.8 per cent.But have you missed the boat if you don’t already have property funds in your portfolio? Not at all, says Patrick Connolly, associate director at independent financial adviser (IFA) Chartwell Investment. While many are choosing to buy a second property to rent out, commercial property provides another, fairly low-risk option.
While this type of investment may seem less exciting than shares, returns have been better in the past few months. Moneynet With a pensions crisis looming, more and more investors are avoiding traditional schemes in favour of making their own retirement provision. With a pensions crisis looming, more and more investors are avoiding traditional schemes in favour of making their own retirement provision. Try the Hebridean Challenge, over 250km of hill running, biking, swimming and kayaking.How do I find out more?Western Isles Tourist Board(Lewis), 01851 703 088, ; Sea Trek, , 01851 672 464; Sgor, 01851 820 726; Adventure Hebrides, 01851 820 726, ; Hebridean Challenge, .