What is the gender pension gap and how can women make more of their pension?

With the energy and cost of living crisis continuing to be a key political issue, European utilities have been asking for government support to help them finance more expensive gas purchases and the European Commission is working on structural reform to the power market in order to decouple the price of electricity from the price…

China’s Central Economic Work Conference took place last week and this is one of the most important events of the year in terms of giving the public an indication of future plans. Beijing promised to “forcefully revive market confidence” in contrast to last year’s “revive the confidence of market entities” – so a little more…

The last day of the tax year is coming up in April, but there is still time to take steps in order to make the most of your pension. Here are some useful tips from our partners at Standard Life to help you prepare.  1. Use your pension allowance Your pension annual allowance is the…

With classic British understatement, you could say the second quarter of 2025 has not been without incident. But market performance over the period fails to capture the full drama. The FTSE Private Investor Balanced Index, a reasonable proxy for the majority of our industry’s clients, returned around 2.5%, which could be considered slightly better than…

Equity markets ended last week on a positive note, with rises across the board on Friday, including the FTSE All-Share and Euro STOXX 600 which were both up +2.6% and the S&P 500 up +3.1%. The S&P ended up +6.5% for the week, the Dow Jones up +5% and the NASDAQ up +7%, making it…

Weak Pound Attracts Overseas Investors “like Bees to a Honey Pot” With the weak pound tumbling after the Brexit vote, Sterling has attracted serious investors throughout the world to dig deep and make substantial returns.   Financial analysts predict a saving of 10% which will enable foreign investors to save 100,000 on a 1 million pound house…