New research shows that global dividends have shaken off the impacts of Covid-19 and reverted to their pre-pandemic days, but the UK’s performance isn’t so promising. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, it had contrasting impacts on the values of shares and the dividends they paid. While share prices dropped precipitously in the first […]
A new government bill indicates that a change to the automatic enrolment minimum age and increases to workplace pension contributions could be on the horizon. Private members’ bills rarely get far in the parliamentary process. They all too easily die at the hands of filibustering, as second and any subsequent readings of a […]
Unfortunately we now live in a world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’1 where parties shamelessly push their own agenda at the cost of salient facts. In order to be heard in the noise of social media, research headlines need to be bigger and more eye-catching. For those investing using an evidence-based approach that […]
Criminals are targeting WhatsApp users by posing as a friend and asking for a security code. Action Fraud has received over 60 reports relating to a scam that steals access to a WhatsApp user’s account. The scam begins when a criminal gets access to another WhatsApp account which has you listed as a contact. The […]
If you are a high earner and feel you are paying more and more tax, you are not alone. Increasing the tax burden for higher earners has been a deliberate policy of successive governments. Higher and additional rate taxpayers now pay about two thirds of all income tax. More than one in seven income tax […]
Most investors – at some time – will be either tempted to time when to be in or out of equity markets – or wish they had when markets fall. It would be great to be able to capture the upsides and avoid the downsides, but that is wishful thinking. Investors may well underestimate the […]
