Nov 14, 2021 | Newsletter
The temperature has been rising in the housing market since the start of the year. The introduction of the Stamp Duty holiday meant that the average price of a house in the UK climbed to the heady heights of £265,000 in June 2021. However, the phasing out of the tax...
Nov 13, 2021 | Newsletter
Young investors are reforming their relationships with their advisers. A recent Fidelity study found more investors have begun to work with an adviser since the start of the pandemic. And, from May 2020 to June 2021, more than a quarter of advised investors hired a...
Nov 12, 2021 | Newsletter
Hundreds of new pensioners could face anxiety and stress owing to delays in payments of their state pension, campaigners have said. The Department for Work and Pensions admitted that the pandemic and staffing issues had caused backlogs in payments to those reaching...
Nov 11, 2021 | Newsletter
Inflation is back. Last month, the consumer prices index was up 3.2% and the retail price index up 4.8%. They will go higher. The Bank of England forecast that the CPI would reach 4% this autumn and could see the RPI hitting 6%. This is happening at a time when we are...
Nov 10, 2021 | Newsletter
Britons are bracing themselves for an expensive winter as a global surge in the cost of gas at wholesale has led many companies to drastically increase their prices. While many companies have reacted by hiking up costs even more for customers, others have taken...
