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07 Aug Pension flexibility two years on – the report card

Posted at 12:37h in Financial News, Retirement Planning by Thomas Grindle 0 Comments

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has examined the impact of pension flexibility and is worried about the lack of advice. Pension flexibility came into effect in April 2015. In theory, since then it has been possible from age 55 onwards to withdraw your entire money purchase...

31 Jul Mr Carney prepares to write a letter as inflation rises

Posted at 10:29h in Financial News by Thomas Grindle 0 Comments

The latest inflation numbers show prices rising at their fastest rate for nearly four years. The May inflation data came as a surprise to many pundits. The expectation had been for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), to remain at April’s level of...

24 Jul Getting our hopes up for an interest rate rise?

Posted at 10:06h in Financial News, Retirement Planning by Thomas Grindle 0 Comments

Last month saw the first suggestions that interest rates could increase soon. In June, the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, increased short term interest rates for the second time this year and the fourth time since December 2015. The 0.25% increase to 1.00% − 1.25%...

18 Jul China becomes an emerging market as MSCI finally opens up

Posted at 08:55h in Business, Financial News, Retirement Planning by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

China-listed shares are finally to be included in the leading emerging markets index. As we as highlighted in May, China has the world’s second largest equity market, but at present shares listed on the Chinese stock exchanges don’t figure in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index....

10 Jul No summer Budget, but…

Posted at 09:06h in Financial News, Retirement Planning by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

The general election left the future of many spring Budget announcements up in the air, but that situation may soon change. When Theresa May announced her snap election in April, it threw a major spanner in the previous month’s Budget. There was no time to pass...

04 Jul Investment round up – 2017 half-year report

Posted at 12:32h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

The first six months of 2017 have presented investors with an interesting half year. Index 2017 Change to 30 June FTSE 100 +2.4% FTSE All-Share +3.3% Dow Jones Industrial +8.0% Standard & Poor’s 500 +8.2% Nikkei 225 -1.1% Euro Stoxx 50 (€) + 4.6% Shanghai Composite +2.9% MSCI Emerging Markets (£) +11.5% Think about the first six months of 2017 in the UK....