Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her annual Mansion House speech yesterday (Tuesday 15 July) to City bosses at a dinner in London. During the speech, delivered at a dinner at Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Reeves discussed the steps she is taking to try to reinvigorate growth … Read more
Video games are one of the most rapidly expanding forms of entertainment. Thanks to improving technology, today’s games are far more immersive than they were even a decade ago, which helps them compete with alternative forms of entertainment, such as television. The demographics of gaming are changing; middle-aged people who grew up with computer games … Read more
Oh god, what now? What now is Section 899 of the One Big Beautiful Bill – Trump’s monster-truck ‘tax and spend’ act currently bouncing around the halls of Congress. Section 899 has been dubbed a ‘revenge tax’ because it targets individuals, corporations, and governments of foreign countries who are deemed to be hitting US entities … Read more
Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and how can they help you avoid paying more tax than you need? With inheritance tax (IHT) set to apply … Read more
What caught my eye this week. Vanguard cut the fees on seven of its bond ETFs this week. For the full list see the table below. I got a heads-up on this fee-flailing from a thoughtful Monevator reader. They speculated that perhaps the price cuts were needed to gee up enthusiasm for bonds after the … Read more
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” According to polling, Inheritance Tax is the most unpopular tax in the UK. You pay taxes on your work, you pay taxes on your spending, you pay taxes on your travel, you pay taxes on your investment gains, you pay taxes … Read more
Despite a growing interest in payments innovation, new research from the trade group representing the payments sector The Payments Association has found that businesses need more education on the opportunities and risks associated with open banking-enabled account-to-account (A2A) payments. Despite a better customer experience, faster settlement and lower fees being listed as some of the biggest … Read more
A shake-up of financial rules is set to make it easier for investors to back smaller companies and will encourage those not yet saving to put their money to work in the stock market. The reforms are part of the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness sector plan set out by chancellor Rachel Reeves this morning. … Read more
Attention UK investors! Remember our massive broker comparison table? Well, we’ve rolled up our sleeves and updated it again to help you find the best online broker for you. Cutting the lawn with nail scissors would have been less tedious. But it would not have produced a quick and easy overview of all the main execution-only … Read more
Over the past 12 months I have overpaid my mortgage by £600 using the automated Sprive app, if I carried on over paying by this relatively small amount of money each year it would save me an estimated £2,800 in interest and would reduce my mortgage term by a year! Small overpayment can have a … Read more