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“Budget 2024: £105m for 15 special free schools, and nothing else”
There were a hundred or more different headlines I could have pinched, but I thought this one...
“Advisers fearful of further compliance and regulation”
We know, of course we know, that regulation is, or at least should be a ‘good thing’. If those who...
“New mums have enough on their plate without dangerous ‘advice’ to contend with”
The ‘dangerous advice’ in question here is not what you might hear from almost any properly...
“Is the AI hype machine losing steam?”
Many of the reviving rises in stock markets, particularly in the US in the last year or so have...
“FCA plan to publicise investigations sparks industry concerns”
Of course everyone wants to make sure that any financial services companies likely to cause...
“Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet”
As rehearsed many times on these pages, the next move onwards and upwards for your investments...
“Three reasons to steer clear of cash”
They’re not talking about the stuff you used to get from a ‘hole in the wall’, now more likely if...
“Britain has lost 435 financial advice firms since 2022”
Headline figures, there were over 200,000 financial advisers at the end of the ’90s, there are...
“New call for £15,000 personal tax allowance threshold for people on State Pension”
Currently around 11m of us file a tax return by that awful deadline of 31st Jan. That might sound...
“Save £460 a month in your twenties to become ‘pension millionaire’”
I’m sure the first reaction of most will be ‘easier said than done’. If you’re in you, or more...
“Middle-aged people in a relationship find it easier to plan for retirement”
This may come as a surprise to many a married person, but it seems that being single is far more...
“What could the next General Election mean for UK equities?”
How worried should we be about a change (by which, read, to Labour) of government? Well, one...
“Rental prices up 6.2% in 12 months to January – ONS”
The number of under-40s, in particular, renting without apparent hope of buying has risen by over...
“UK slips into recession as economy contracts 0.1% in December”
This week’s big economic and bad election news is that we are, or certainly have been, officially...
“Are US stocks bubbling up?”
‘I’ve seen how much the S&P 500 has gone up, why haven’t my investments done the same?’, I’ve...