By: Maisie Grice

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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Retiring abroad could lose Brits over £70,000 with state pension at risk

April 13, 2026

British pensioners eyeing a retirement in the sun could see thousands wiped off their state pension, top financial planners have warned. Brits planning to retire overseas during this tax year could forgo more than £77,000 in state pension income over the next 20 years, if they opt to move to a country where payments are [...]
Hungarian stocks surge as Peter Magyar topples Viktor Orban from power

April 13, 2026

Hungarian-listed stocks hit records high in early trading after Prime Minister Viktor Orban was toppled from 16 years in power following a sweeping election defeat. Budapest’s BUX jumped 3.3 per cent upon market open, before settling at a 2.7 per cent gain, trading at 136,481 points, a fresh record high for the index. Gains were [...]
Thousands of taxpayers to miss out on rebate as HMRC still sending cheques

April 13, 2026

Thousands of Brits are missing out on collecting their tax rebates after failing to cash in cheques sent to them by HMRC. According to an FOI from the i paper, the department issued 1,746,720 cheques last year, but 178,180 were never cashed. The cheques had a combined value of £144m, meaning taxpayers who failed to [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks tumble amid Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade

April 13, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Markets are returning from the weekend to a major blow in hopes of a ceasefire in the Middle East. After Donald Trump revealed his two-week reprieve on strikes whilst negotiations begin, those very talks now look to be hanging by a thread. Vice President JD [...]
Taxpayers brace for a financial hit after personal allowance rule change

April 9, 2026

British taxpayers are bracing for a fresh financial hit as changes to the personal allowance creeps closer. While the personal allowance itself is not changing, remaining frozen at £12,570 until 2031, a subtle change will take effect from the next tax year, as the government places a new lock onto how it is applied, affecting [...]
Iran war sparks sharp reversal in European ETF rally

April 9, 2026

European ETF flows ran out of road in March, as the Iran war pared back market gains from the first two months of the year and investors returned to the sidelines. The European exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded commodities (ETC) market saw a sharp decline in investment during March, gathering only €9.4bn (£8.1bn), according to [...]
‘Dragged out of the dark ages’: Investment industry welcomes risk warnings review

April 9, 2026

The UK investment industry has welcomed the findings of the Risk Warnings Review, emphasising the need to remove the extremes-focused view on investing. The review, a study commissioned by the Chancellor as part of the Leeds Reforms, found that consumers’ perception of risk has seriously hindered investing in the UK, with the state of risk [...]
Bill Ackman in talks to launch fund in bid to pounce on investor complacency

April 9, 2026

Bill Ackman is reportedly in talks to launch a new fund in an attempt to copy the success of doomsday trades the investor made during the covid pandemic. The billionaire hedge fund manager’s investment company Pershing Square would use the fund to make “asymmetric” trades aimed at profiting by betting against the leading market narratives, [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks take a dip as Trump’s ceasefire in doubt

April 9, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Hopes for peace in the Middle East are on thin ice with the ceasefire unveiled on Wednesday morning already seemingly in tatters. According to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, the US and Israel have already “violated” Iran’s 10-point ceasefire proposal in three ways. And [...]
The UK’s risk aversion culture is holding back investment

April 9, 2026

The UK perception of investment risk is holding back a wave of capital into equities as Brits continue to view the stock market as a casino and squirrel their savings away in the safety of cash. The UK investment sector has become plagued by the widespread, standardised use of risk warnings, which instead of telling [...]

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