‘My £224k pension is in just five stocks and two funds – which should we sell?’
Luckily, you’ve got just over £28,000 ready to be invested as well as the proceeds for the Lindsell Train fund...
archiveComment
London’s Brexit loss is mainly New York’s gain
The City’s interests were almost wholly ignored during the withdrawal negotiations, which given that financial services are arguably Britain’s most...
Starmer is no Blair – nor should he be
Mr Yew came to power as a left winger. He had the intelligence however to realise that while left wing...
the Left is falling out of love with Europe
Henceforth, we will be reminded of the eurozone’s own woes as it tightens monetary and fiscal policy into the teeth...
A lot of dumb money is chasing artificial intelligence. This is how I would invest
Torpid global economic growth sustains recession fears, which worsening Chinese economic data further fuel.True “all-weather” growth stocks are rare –...
Brexit Britain has made a lucky escape from crisis-ridden EU
Germany’s currency was too weak for most of the last two decades, but now, with no more cheap Russian gas,...
The UK economy is beating Germany and France, and the Remainers are furious
The UK economy is larger than first thought, according to figures released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics. Can...
Scammers came after my wealth – but M&S let me down
Four weeks later, I was telephoned on my mobile by a man from an 0345 number who said he also worked for the bank. He said they had detected two more suspicious transactions in the last hour. He confirmed he knew where I live and said that since this was the second time it had happened, they were keeping “a specially close eye on my account.” He told me I should be grateful for the vigilance. The caller said he would stop my card and post me a new one...
‘Phoenix Life has been keeping my £86,000 pension for a year against my wishes’
Has a company treated you unfairly? Our Consumer Champion is available to help. For how to contact her click here.Dear Katie,I have been trying to move my pension with Phoenix Life over to a Fidelity Sipp for over a year after having been given a transfer value of £86,000. However, the pension has still not yet been moved.Most of the correspondence I have had with Phoenix Life has been ignored, or responded to via an automated email response.Fidelity has contacted it several times to request that the funds be transferred,...
Jeremy Hunt is wrong – tax cuts are more than possible
Total government spending was only 39.5pc of GDP that year. It was perhaps understandable that it spiked up to 53pc in the Covid-affected year. But what is much less excusable is that spending did not return anywhere near its pre-Covid level after the pandemic ended, is scheduled to be over 46pc of GDP this year, and even at the outer horizon of government spending forecasts (if one believes them) is scheduled to be well over 43pc still, in 2027-28.Hunt and Sunak pitch themselves as the grown-up, responsible folk, focused on fiscal...