Weekly Roundup, 31st March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: QE, emerging markets, robots, unpicking Picketty, election jitters and don’t blow your pension.
Tagged: SIPP
Economics Manifesto – New Savings Culture
We look at the Economics Manifesto from Policy Exchange. Will its proposals lead to a new savings culture in Britain, or is there an elephant in the room?
Budget 2015
We take a look at Osborne’s last Budget of this Parliament – pension lifetime allowance, ISAs, VCTs, incomes & savings tax, Help to Buy ISA and oil tax cuts.
Weekly Roundup, 18th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: savings inequality, tax-free pensions, the housing crisis, traded annuities, art, care costs and wages.
Weekly Roundup, 10th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: tax avoidance, VCTs, pensions, P2P, crowdfunding, farmland, trading rules, Apple and property taxes
Tax Avoidance
Today’s post is about Tax avoidance. In the news Tax avoidance scandals have been in the news a lot recently, but that isn’t why I decided to write about the…
Weekly Roundup, 4th March 2015
We begin today’s weekly roundup as usual in the FT. FTSE-100 all-time high In fact, we begin where we left off last week, with the FTSE-100 hitting record highs. Judith…
Are Pensions Finished?
Today’s post is about a paper from Michael Johnston of the Centre for Policy Studies. The paper calls for additional protections for savers in the light of the upcoming pension…
Weekly Roundup, 26th February 2015
We begin this week’s roundup in the FT, with John Authers. Active fund management John’s column was about the misleading marketing used by active fund managers, and the shortcomings of…
Pensions Commission – Consensus Revisited
Today’s post looks at a report issued this week which calls for a Pension Commission to be established. The Report The report, written by Ben Franklin, comes from the International…
Weekly Roundup, 16th February 2015
We begin today’s Weekly Roundup with the FT’s “Chart that tells a story”. Income gap narrows The chart below shows how the after-tax income of the richest, poorest and average…
