The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, presented his 2023 Spring Budget to Parliament on Wednesday, with the main theme of the Budget targeted at tackling the UK’s productivity issues, with the aim to encourage those economically inactive back to work.
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Last month proved a mixed bag for global investors. On the one hand, British and European assets had another decent month, buoyed by lower-than-expected energy prices and noticeably lower inflation numbers.
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Divorce is complicated on many levels – and how to deal with pensions is one of them. In many cases, pension sharing is a good route to take. It allows a “fair” split of pension assets to equalise incomes at retirement, giving both parties a clean break and ownership of their own investment and retirement
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Outside of the family home, pensions are often the biggest asset to share when two people divorce. Despite this, however, pension assets are frequently ignored or simply overlooked, especially in the early part of divorce proceedings, resulting in rushed and potentially unsatisfactory outcomes. Why is this? For many clients, it can be a case of
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If investors were hoping for a turnaround in fortunes, they hardly could have asked for a better start to the year. While 2022 brought plenty of downpours, the first month of 2023 was all sunshine in capital markets. January’s equity market returns were positive across all major economies – many spectacularly so.
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For global investors, December was a suitably drab end to a dreary year. The equity rally which had gained momentum since autumn lost steam coming into the winter months.
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Following the political commotion over the past few months, along with continued investment market volatility, we now look forward to the festive season to add some cheer. However, for many it will be a difficult period with increasing costs, but we hope 2023 will bring some calmer times for all and peace to people in
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A surprisingly warm November brought rays of sunshine to capital markets. All the major equity markets (that we track in the table below) saw positive returns, government and corporate bond yields fell – pushing up bond valuations, and most currencies gained against the US dollar.
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The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Government’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons on Thursday which has been eagerly anticipated following a volatile few months in the political and economic arenas.
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Global equities rebounded in October, rising 2.8% from the perspective of a £-sterling based investor. This came as markets processed mixed third quarter earnings, further monetary tightening, new fiscal support packages and a slowdown in economic activity.
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Recession fears take hold September’s market activity displayed similarities to August: after an encouraging start, every asset class bar gold headed south. The month ended with an acceleration in the sell-off, which brought the summer quarter to a disappointing close.
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Following Chancellor’s Kwasi Kwarteng Mini budget speech last week, it seems that it was a ‘Mini’ budget in name only, as big changes were unveiled as a package of tax cuts aimed at addressing the rising cost of living and delivering future growth. Read our summary of the wider points that were not necessarily in
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