Budget 2021 at a glance Here are the main points of Rishi Sunak’s Budget: Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts economy will return to pre-Covid levels by the middle of 2022, six months earlier than previously thought. OBR forecast economy will grow this year by 4 per cent, by 7.3 per cent in 2022, then … Read more
Rishi Sunak could launch a tax raid on online businesses – including a green tax on deliveries – as part of plans to replenish the country’s coffers in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The Chancellor is reportedly looking to ‘level up the playing field’ between online and high street businesses as part of a series … Read more
BMO MANAGED PORTFOLIO: Income AND growth in a trust with a twist By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 27 February 2021 Investment trust BMO Managed Portfolio is an unusual beast. Under its umbrella sits two portfolios, designed for income and growth investors respectively, that … Read more
The live events industry has launched a hard-hitting campaign highlighting the turmoil its workers are going through, and urging the Government to act now and safeguard the sector’s future. The campaign, ‘The Government Can’t See Us, Can You?’ or #GovCantSeeUs, shows the devastation the coronavirus pandemic has wrought on the live events supply chain. Professionals … Read more
SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: All change at £200 investment fund, but income is still essential By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 It has been all change at Securities Trust of Scotland, at £200million investment fund with a global income mandate. Since … Read more
My wife’s grandmother has a spare £100,000 that she wants to earn some income from to supplement her state pension. She has no private pension and is fed up with terrible savings rates. She does have more cash savings that will be kept separate, but she wants to get this money working harder, earning at least 3-to-5 … Read more
Searching for a decent income from your savings and investments has rarely been more challenging. In climbing terms, it is more akin to summiting the ferocious K2 mountain in midwinter (as some brave hearts have just thrillingly done – please get down safely) than indulging in a spot of fell walking in the Lakes (lockdown … Read more
Divorce hits women’s income TWICE as hard as men’s: Wives’ finances plunge by a third after marriage ends, research suggests The Legal & General pension group released the research findings yesterday It said many women earn less than men and do not insist on taking a share of their former partner’s pension This decision often … Read more
Katie Price has revealed that her eldest son Harvey is set to launch his own clothing range with a plus sized brand he often wears. The former glamour model, 42, explained how she wants him have the collection so he’s got something ‘long-term’ to do and also so he’s ‘got an income himself’. Harvey, who … Read more
The second in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. The first, on open-ended funds in the environmental sector, is here. The UK’s energy mix is in the process of transitioning from coal and gas … Read more