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Investment Reporter Maisie Grice is City AM’s investment reporter. She completed the Financial Time’s newsroom apprenticeship, working on specialist magazine Investors’ Chronicle and the UK news desk before joining FT Money as a personal finance reporter. She also worked as a regional news reporter at the Manchester Evening News, covering live events, crime and local politics.

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Stamp out pension tax speculation or risk another cash grab, industry warns Healey

Personal Finance

The pension industry has warned Healey not to allow pension tax speculation to go “unchecked” in the run up to his maiden Autumn Budget, after rumours led savers to pull millions from pension pots last year. UK savers pulled £91bn from their pension pots before last year’s Autumn Budget as they looked to dodge Labour’s [...]
Autumn Budget: Healey weighs slashing fiscal headroom to reduce tax hikes

Politics

Chancellor John Healey is debating accepting a smaller fiscal buffer in order to reduce tax hikes in next month’s Autumn Budget. The Treasury and No 10 are in active discussions over whether to set a lower buffer in the Budget than the Office for Budget Responsibility set in March, according to reports in the Financial [...]
Legal & General to cut 1,000 jobs by middle of 2027

Investing

Legal and General plans to cut 1,000 jobs by the middle of next year as part of a push from chief executive Antonio Simoes to create a “leaner operation”. The UK’s largest asset manager informed staff on Wednesday on email that it has begun moves to eliminate 10 per cent of its workforce. The programme [...]

Four out of five top firms have never had a female chief executive, report finds

September 23, 2026

Four out of five companies across the FTSE 100 and S&P 100 have never had a female chief executive, as boards fail to promote them into positions of power earlier in their career, a new report has found. Across the two nations, 80 per cent of firms have never had a women lead the company, [...]
How inheritance tax is becoming a ‘bill for ordinary households’

September 22, 2026

Inheritance tax receipts have hit a new high as frozen thresholds and rising property values drag more households into the tax net. Inheritance tax (IHT) receipts have hit £3.8bn so far this financial year, surpassing the £3.7bn recorded at the same point last year, according to the latest data from HMRC. Total receipts reached £8.5bn [...]
London Stock Exchange’s Pisces market set to host third tech deal

September 22, 2026

The London Stock Exchange’s fledgling private Pisces market is set to receive another boost after a third tech company unveiled plans for an employee share sale on the platform. Veremark, which uses technology to conduct background checks and screening, will conduct a £6m share sale on the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market (PSM), allowing [...]
City watchdog begins legal action against loan notes firm Hunter Jones

September 21, 2026

The City watchdog has begun High Court proceedings against a loan notes firm and its chief executive, according to court filings, amid growing scrutiny of the high-risk instruments and their availability to retail investors. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has initiated proceedings against Osborne Baldwin, which trades as both Hunter Jones and Hunter Jones Group, [...]
As it happened: US stocks make gains ahead of Trump-Xi summit

September 21, 2026

Welcome back to City AM’s FTSE 100 liveblog. The UK’s blue-chip index made gains on Monday morning, turning a corner from heavy losses on Friday. Miners and industrial stocks like Anglo American, Antofagasta and Metlen Energy and Metals were among the FTSE 100’s biggest risers on Monday morning. BP and Shell dragged on the index, [...]
Energy costs and rate hikes to weigh on growth

September 21, 2026

The UK economy is forecast to grow in 2026, but rising energy bills and higher borrowing costs will weigh on activity in the second half of the year. The economy is set to grow 1.3 per cent this year, according to KPMG’s latest economic outlook, after household spending was “supported by warmer weather” while businesses [...]
Businesses welcome Tory pledge to restore tax-free shopping

September 20, 2026

Top UK business leaders have welcomed Tory plans to bring back tax-free shopping for overseas visitors if they reenter government in a bid to end the tourism shopping slump. The Conservatives said it would restore VAT refunds for eligible visitors from outside the EU after the tax-break was stripped away in 2021 under former chancellor [...]

Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd and Spurs could claim damages from Manchester City

Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd and Spurs could claim damages from Manchester City

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