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Your Autumn Budget update, and what it means for you

After months of speculation and rumour, chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered the Autumn Budget for 2025. In this update, we’ll explain the key changes and what they mean for you.  Last year, in her maiden Budget, the chancellor sought to balance the public...

Guide: Planning for a longer life: Wellbeing tips and financial management strategies

Average life expectancies have increased significantly in recent years, both in the UK and the rest of the world. While people living longer is always good news, it also brings new challenges for your health and, crucially, your finances. Maintaining your physical and...

Guide: What the Back to the Future ripple effect could teach you about financial planning

It’s been 40 years since Back to the Future delighted cinema-goers with its time-travelling adventure. Teenager Marty McFly discovers the power of the “ripple effect”, and it’s something that could be valuable when you’re creating a financial plan as well.  One...

HOW BEING ABSENT-MINDED IS COSTING YOU MONEY

We can all be forgetful on occasions, we’re only human after all. However, when it comes to our finances, losing track of what we have can be a costly mistake to make. It’s been estimated that a staggering figure of £15bn is tied up in old bank accounts, pensions,...

FIVE TOPICS YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT IN 2019

As we embark on a new year, although it’s likely to be overshadowed by uncertainty surrounding Brexit, it’s important to keep your personal financial goals in mind and ensure you continue to plan for the future. Revisit your investment goals It makes sense to take...

Economic Review

Our monthly economic review is intended to provide background to recent developments in investment markets as well as to give an indication of how some key issues could impact in the future. It is not intended that individual investment decisions should be taken based...

Spring Statement March 2019

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond stood up in Parliament at 12.43pm on Wednesday, 13 March, to deliver his second Spring Statement at an inauspicious time following the House of Commons’ dramatic rejection of the Government’s Brexit deal the previous evening....

PAY GROWTH STRONGEST FOR A DECADE

The latest set of employment statistics shows that the UK labour market remains in a robust state and that the recent recovery in real pay growth is gathering momentum.  According to data from the Labour Force Survey, the number of people in work rose to a record high...

Pension Cold Calling Ban Comes into Force

A new law has come into force which makes it illegal for companies to cold call about pensions. The ban on unwanted, unsolicited phone calls to people about their pensions follows an industry campaign to make the practice illegal. Companies breaking the new law could...

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