More borrowers will be paying off mortgage debt into their 70s January 21, 2025 In the first nine months of 2024, 22,103 mortgages with a term of at least 35 years were approved to people aged over 36.
Homeowners face massive inheritance tax hike after Budget hit November 21, 2024 London homeowners are going to be hit with an eye-watering 1,840 per cent increase in inheritance tax (IHT) liability, as a direct result of Rachel Reeves’ Budget changes, it has been calculated. A single homeowner in the capital with an averaged priced home of £525,586, with the same amount in their pension, will have a [...]
Inheritance tax receipts rise as Brits warned to ‘make plans to pass on wealth’ November 21, 2024 Inheritance tax receipts have risen again as experts are warning Brits to better plan for the passing on of wealth, after the Autumn Budget changes. Fresh figures released this morning show inheritance tax receipts for between April and October of this year are £5bn, which is £500m higher than the same period last year. This [...]
Reeves eyes £80bn investment with pension ‘megafunds’ November 14, 2024 The Chancellor Rachel Reeves will unveil plans to consolidate the UK’s sprawling £400bn local authority pension schemes today in a bid to unlock a wave of investment into the UK. In her first Mansion House speech in the City, Reeves is expected to announce a new Pension Schemes Bill to be introduced next year, aiming [...]
Why these City firms will be the winners and losers of Rachel Reeves’s Budget October 28, 2024 Nervousness has gripped the City over the past month. A vacuum of fiscal policy has been filled by speculation and companies are scrambling to draw up plans ahead of a potentially punitive tax-raiding Budget from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. Among the most gloomy warnings have been an inadvertent gutting of London’s junior AIM market [...]
AJ Bell says Budget jitters are causing investors to pull pension money October 17, 2024 AJ Bell has warned uncertainty around Rachel Reeves’s Budget this month is causing investors to pull pension money from its platform and hold off contributing to their retirement pots. In a trading update for its financial year to September, the FTSE 250 firm said it had seen an acceleration of cash exiting the platform amid [...]
Quilter inflows shoot up as platform business booms October 16, 2024 Investors poured millions into Quilter during the last quarter, with the wealth manager bringing in £1.4bn of new business over the last three months. All arms of the business saw elevated levels of cash being deposited into them by investors, pushing group assets under management and administration to a total of £116.2bn. In a trading [...]
Capital gains tax could be hiked to almost 40 per cent October 10, 2024 Capital gains tax could be hiked by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to almost 40 per cent in the Budget, according to reports. The Guardian has reported that the Treasury is modelling a range of between 33 per cent to 39 per cent. Around 350,000 people pay the wealth tax with is levied on the sale of [...]
What’s causing the decline in UK investment fund launches? September 19, 2024 The number of actively managed funds launched in the UK is dropping, fast. While the number of passive funds, which track indexes, has been fairly consistent recently, the number of active ones has almost halved in the last five years, from 146 in 2018 to just 79 last year. What’s worse, only 32 have been [...]
Wealth manager Quilter posts record adjusted profit as investors’ nerves ease August 7, 2024 FTSE 250 wealth manager Quilter has reported a record adjusted profit amid a recovery in net inflows and improvements in global equity markets.