On 30 October 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the Autumn Budget. With many predicting a Halloween scare in terms of tax rises for many apart from the loosely defined “working people”, The Chancellor did not disappoint. Vowing to “restore stability” to [...]
Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement yesterday and as always we are looking at how it affects the majority of our clients in pensions and investments. Pensions The big issue here was the confirmation that the Lifetime Allowance (LTA) would be [...]
A look at the last quarter of 2022 and the end of a challenging year for investors. Quarterly highlights include: Economic growth data in the US, Eurozone and UK, reported in Q4, exceeded expectations. Whilst GDP growth forecasts for 2023 continued to [...]
After the mini budget a couple of weeks ago the financial markets went into a tailspin, essentially due to the level of tax cuts announced and the fact the Government had not explained how they were going to pay for them. [...]
Friday 23rd September saw Kwasi Kwarteng unveil his first (“mini”) budget in his new post as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. According to Kwarteng, the Governments priority is economic growth - this message being backed up with the introduction of a [...]
Further ratcheting up in the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) tightening makes a “hard landing”, where higher interest rates drive the economy into a recession, more likely. Since the start of this year, the market has been all-consumed with how central banks [...]
