Mar 18, 2021 | Newsletter
The number of funds that have consistently underperformed in the markets they invest in this year has risen by a third, new data has shown. This is partly due to the gulf between the performance of growth versus value and income funds, which has been exacerbated by...
Mar 16, 2021 | Newsletter
The government is under mounting pressure to plug gaps in its emergency coronavirus wage subsidy schemes at the March budget to support millions of self-employed people and other workers excluded from furlough. MPs and campaign groups said the chancellor, Rishi Sunak,...
Mar 14, 2021 | Newsletter
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will set out plans to boost the UK economy in his Budget next month. This could mean tax rises as the government looks to balance the books after borrowing a record £284.7 billion following the coronavirus crisis. For this Budget, there has been...
Mar 12, 2021 | Newsletter
Hundreds of thousands of savers face a retirement income lottery as providers are poised to put their pension pots into a hotchpotch of ‘one-size-fits-all’ investment funds. From now, over-55s who dip into their pension for the first time without getting...
Mar 10, 2021 | Newsletter
The volume of articles by analysts warning of another stock market crash is growing. This may strike you as odd, because a few short weeks ago, plenty of analysts were talking up the forthcoming 2021 stock market rally instead. There is only one thing investors can do...
Feb 26, 2021 | Newsletter
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is introducing the investment pathways initiative to ensure that anyone with a pension drawdown account has access to simple, good-value investments that broadly match their retirement income goals. The reforms are designed to...
