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The Autumn Statement confirmed plans to limit the scope for salary sacrifice arrangements. In recent years, the number of employers offering ‘cafeteria’ remuneration has steadily increased. Under the system, employees can swap pay for benefits, which can range from anything from mobile phones through to...

19 December, 2016 /

It looks likely that the deposit protection limit will rise at the end of January. At the start of 2016, the maximum amount of a bank or building society deposit covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) was cut from £85,000 to £75,000. The...

12 December, 2016 /

The Office for National Statistics has been examining the value of unpaid work. Every three months the news headlines draw attention to how much UK gross domestic product (GDP) has changed over the past quarter – the last reading was +0.5%, better than many experts had...

05 December, 2016 /

What are the investment consequences of the surprise US election result? The arrival of Donald Trump marks a change of direction for the US government from the near status quo that Hillary Clinton was offering. Quite what the new direction is remains unclear. On the one...

01 December, 2016 /