Financial Focus: Summer 2023

Financial Focus: Summer 2023

In this issue… Inflation has stubbornly remained higher than the Bank of England’s predictions for June 2023, prolonging higher costs for most, but elsewhere in the financial landscape there are more beneficial developments. Annuities are now providing an...
Financial Focus: Spring 2023

Financial Focus: Spring 2023

In this issue… The reappearance of a full Budget in March almost three years after the start of the pandemic marked a return to ‘business as usual’. The circumstances, however, with record inflation and a cost of living crisis, are anything but usual. Although...
Spring Budget 2023

Spring Budget 2023

Spring Budget 2023  March 15, 2023  Spring Budget 2023 Enterprise, Education, Employment, Everywhere… All at once! Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Spring Budget to Parliament earlier today. This Spring Budget is the...
Financial Focus: Winter 2022

Financial Focus: Winter 2022

In this issue… The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement delivered both expectations and some surprises: two-year extensions on the tax threshold freezes, scaled back financial support for energy bills and cuts on both  dividend allowances and capital gains...
Financial Focus: Autumn 2022

Financial Focus: Autumn 2022

In this issue… Many have turned to savings to help meet their increased costs and in this edition we look at different aspects of the problem. For those eligible to draw down pension lump sums, the short term gain in funds could store up future problems in...
Mini-Budget 2022

Mini-Budget 2022

Mini-Budget 2022  September 23, 2022  Mini-Budget 2022 Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Statement – 23 September 2022 This Statement, which has been called a ‘mini-Budget’, is the first fiscal event of Liz Truss’s premiership and takes...
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