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Budget Report March 2016
The Chancellor looked to deliver a stable budget, aiming to avoid controversy ahead of the EU Referendum in June. Whilst there were no ground-breaking announcements, the detail still contains proposals of interest to investors. T ...
Defined Benefit Transfers
Many employees have, over their working life, built up a considerable entitlement to a defined benefit pension. This type of pension undertakes to pay a predetermined portion of an employee’s final salary in retirement (hence these s ...
Investment Comment March 2016
February saw some stability return to the stock markets following the volatility of January. In the UK, for example, the Top UK 100 Companies fell slightly as the month began before finding a bottom and climbing to open in March at 6, ...
Investment Comment February 2016
The oil price continued to drive investment sentiment as 2016 got under way. For the opening weeks of the year oil continued to sell off, with Brent Crude dropping below $30 per barrel. However, it has since recovered and almost reached it ...
Current Market Turmoil and the Economic Outlook
Last week, an analyst note by Andrew Roberts at RBS set off a series of headlines in national newspapers which spooked retail investors. This note will look at whether that worry is justified. First though, a comment on the author of th ...
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