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January 2017

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At first sight, the results from the world’s main share markets in 2016 appear mixed, but that’s before currency effects are considered. Index 2016 Change FTSE 100 +14.4 FTSE All-Share +12.5% Dow Jones Industrial +13.4% Standard & Poor’s 500 +9.5% Nikkei 225 + 0.4% Euro Stoxx 50 (€) + 0.7% Shanghai Composite - 12.3% MSCI Emerging Markets (£) +29.5%   Drilling into the raw...

30 January, 2017 /

From April, the residence nil rate band comes into being. It was nearly two years ago that the Conservatives’ manifesto for the 2015 election promised to “take the family home out of tax by increasing the effective Inheritance Tax threshold for married couples and civil...

23 January, 2017 /

The Treasury has announced the date of the next Budget. It may feel like Mr Hammond’s Autumn Statement was only a few days ago, but shortly before Christmas the Treasury announced that the Spring Budget will be on Wednesday 8 March. In theory, this will be the last...

16 January, 2017 /

Automatic enrolment has reached a new landmark, but the path from 2017 onwards could be challenging. When automatic enrolment (AE) into workplace pensions started in October 2012, there were some doubts about how successful it would be. A little over four years later, few would...

02 January, 2017 /