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28 Nov Second-hand annuities: not for sale

Posted at 12:55h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

The Treasury has changed its mind about allowing the sale of pension annuities. When pensions flexibility was announced in March 2014, one of the inevitable criticisms was that the reform came too late for those who had already turned their pension pot into an annuity....

21 Nov Marmite pricing: the good news

Posted at 12:18h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

Sterling’s fall is boosting dividend payments. On the day of the referendum, a pound would buy you nearly $1.50. It dropped sharply in the wake of the vote and then spent about three months churning between roughly $1.35 and $1.30. October produced another leg down...

14 Nov Marmite pricing: the bad news

Posted at 13:00h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

Inflation rose to 1% in September, but that will not be the end of the story. Last month a spat between Tesco and Unilever over the pricing of products under a new contract saw Marmite temporarily removed from the shelves of Tesco’s internet shopping website....

07 Nov Radical reform for pension contribution tax relief?

Posted at 12:57h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

The pre-Autumn Statement rumour mill is suggesting a radical reform of pension contribution tax relief. Could tax relief for pension contributions be based on your age rather than the rate of income tax you pay? It may sound strange, but one idea doing the rounds is...

01 Nov State Pension Age: getting older?

Posted at 12:53h in Financial News by Gemma Bellaby 0 Comments

The government has published an independent review on the state pension system. There was a time when it was all so simple: men drew their state pension from age 65 and women from age 60. That all started to change in the mid-1990s, when the...

31 Oct A better quarter

Posted at 13:00h in Financial News by Daniel_Walton 0 Comments

The third quarter of 2016 was not the meltdown it threatened to be after the referendum. The final days of the second quarter of 2016 were dominated by the fall-out from the outcome of the referendum on 23 June. It was, to put it mildly, a...