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

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has outlined the wage prospects of UK workers as “dreadful” after Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement. The IFS states that workers will be worse off financially in 2021 in real terms than they were in 2008, with lower income families to be the worse affected. Paul Johnson, Director…

The Long-term outlook If the outlook for sterling is largely to be determined by the direction of interest rates, and rates are to be largely determined by inflation rather than the economic outlook, then what is the outlook for UK inflation? Recent data around both grocery and energy prices indicates that at least some of the…

Markets closed down significantly on Friday and have started this week poorly. US stocks entered a bear market, Treasury yields spiked to levels not seen in a decade and the Dollar rallied as the fallout from a hot inflation reading continued to rattle global trading already shaken by worries the Federal Reserve will plunge the…

Assessing the Impact As Donald Trump completes his first 100 days in office, a complex economic narrative emerges, one which challenges traditional approaches while attempting to address long-standing structural challenges. His presidency has introduced uncertainty and volatility, yet the broader economic context remains one of relative strength. This dynamic sets the current period apart from…