January was a rollercoaster ride for share markets around the world. INDEX JANUARY CHANGE FTSE 100 – 2.5% FTSE 100 – 2.5% FTSE All-Share – 3.2% Dow Jones Industrial – 5.5% Standard & Poor’s 500 – 5.1% Nikkei 225 – … Continue reading →

The fall in the price of oil is having some curious side effects. Petrol and diesel fell to under a £1 a litre in January as the supermarkets battled for customers. The drop was due to the precipitous decline in … Continue reading →

A long-awaited event happened in mid-December. The mid-December front pages of the national press were pre-occupied with the launch of a rocket from Kazakhstan containing Tim Peake, the UK’s first European Space Agency astronaut. At virtually the same time, the … Continue reading →

The government has set out further details about the secondary annuity market.   In last March’s Budget the Chancellor launched a consultation considering how existing pension annuity holders would be able to sell their annuity in return for a taxable … Continue reading →