Is now the perfect time to consider guaranteed income, provided by pension annuities?

Is now the perfect time to consider guaranteed income, provided by pension annuities?

If you’re approaching retirement, you’re probably thinking about how you’d like to access your pension savings. There will be lots of options available to you – but, as many households struggle with the cost of living crisis, the benefit of having a guaranteed, regular income may be increasingly difficult to ignore. Is now the perfect…

Inflation comes in hotter than expected
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Inflation comes in hotter than expected

The major news last week was the release of US Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) data for January. The reading, which analysts thought would come in at 7.3%, hit a 40-year high and was ahead of expectations at 7.5%, year-on-year (YoY). This was 0.2% higher than expected, and the steepest 12-month rise since 1982. Core CPI…

The markets to watch in 2022 as the inflation story continues

The markets to watch in 2022 as the inflation story continues

After a tumultuous 2021, Capital.com’s chief market strategist David Jones explains what traders and investors should look out for in the year ahead in the face of inflation, the pandemic, and uncertainty over how much further the technology bull market has left to run. Inflation unsurprisingly spiked in 2021 as the global economy recovered from…