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Spring Budget 2023 - Overview

15.03.23 02:26 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
The key measures in Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announced for England (national variations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland may apply)

Wages, pensions and personal taxation
  • The Pensions Lifetime Allowance charge will be removed from April 2023, before the Allowance is abolished entirely in Apr...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Silicon Valley Bank failure

13.03.23 09:17 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Tony Mee
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was a medium-sized regional US bank that specialised in providing banking services to entrepreneurial technology businesses within the US and UK.

On Wednesday 8 March SVB notified the market that it was $2 billion short of capital. By Friday US regulators had clos...

Market Update February 2023

22.02.23 01:38 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Market Update February 2023

Information correct at time of recording. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of an investment and the income from it could go down as well as up. The return at the end of the investment period is not guaranteed and you may get back less than you originally ...

Market Update November 2022

25.11.22 01:41 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Market Update November 2022
Information correct at time of recording. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of an investment and the income from it could go down as well as up. The return at the end of the investment period is not guaranteed and you may get back less than you originally ...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Autumn Statement 2022

21.11.22 08:35 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo

As has become even clearer since it was dissected every which way by the Sunday papers, ‘sunshine and lollipops’ this Autumn Statement was not.

Jeremy’s hunt for the UK’s credibility led to the Chancellor announcing a punishing package of spending cuts and tax rises – just as Britain ...

Bleak outlook for the UK – but don’t give up on it yet

09.11.22 02:22 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Bleak outlook for the UK – but don’t give up on it yet
Our Investment Specialist Kel Nwanuforo has penned a new article over on Nucleus Financial’s website for advisers, Illuminate: 

Asset Intelligence Comment: Liz Truss resigns – the investor’s view

20.10.22 02:12 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo

Well, there we have it folks: yet another Prime Minister bites the dust.

Liz Truss is headed for the exit door, after less than two months in office. By quite some distance, she will be the country’s shortest-serving Prime Minister, and the first since World War II never to lead her p...

Asset Intelligence Short update: Pound panic dies down

05.10.22 02:34 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo   

Britain’s financial markets have witnessed considerable volatility since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his ‘mini Budget’ last month. The pound dropped to all-time lows versus the US dollar and government borrowing costs rose sharply, with investors and traders ques...

Market Update September

30.09.22 11:08 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Market Update September
Information correct at time of recording. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of an investment and the income from it could go down as well as up. The return at the end of the investment period is not guaranteed and you may get back less than you originally ...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Volatility in UK financial markets

27.09.22 08:58 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo

The economic and market headlines have been gloomy for some months now. However, ever since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his ‘Growth Plan Statement’ last week things have turned downright downbeat.

Followers of finance woke on Monday morning to find that over the weekend, tradi...

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