Month: May 2015

Revealed during the 2015 Budget, the government has introduced new measures to discourage tax avoidance. Headlining these measures are two new criminal offences and higher penalties, which cannot only be brought against those who avoid tax, but also those who enable tax avoidance. The two new headline measures introduced by the government include a new...

According to HMRC, 45% of savers in stocks and shares ISAs are aged 55 or over. These savers already understand the mantra of ‘gross is good’ and have chosen an investment on which there’s no additional tax due on investment growth and income. What many investors seem to be unaware of is that the exact...

Women retiring in 2015 expect a retirement income 25% lower than men, according to the Prudential’s annual ‘Class of’ research. However, the research also reports that the retirement income gender gap is at its lowest since 2009, when Prudential first started tracking the difference between male and female retirement income expectations as part of its...

In the UK April saw the clock ticking down towards the General Election. For the rest of the world, life went on pretty much as normal: that’s to say, China and Germany remorselessly cranked out another trade surplus, the American economy gave us more mixed signals, and Greece teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. In...