Gender pension gap starts from birth as parents boost more boys’ pensions.
According to a recent FOI request made by HL, 14,500 girls aged 15 or under had money paid into a pension for them compared to ..
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Auto-enrolment doubles pension savers – but self-employed still miss out
20m eligible employees were participating in a workplace pension in 2021. Prior to auto-enrolment it was 10.7m. The annual tot..
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Air passenger duty takes off as holidays return, but for how long?
Air passenger duty receipts for April 2022 to May 2022 are £0.4 billion higher than in the same period a year earlier. Receipts from P..
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Ongoing policy failures, soaring inflation and a generation of investors with a skewed sense of risk
By Charles-White Thomson, Chief Executive Officer at Saxo Markets UK Moral hazard has skewed retail investors’ approach to risk..
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Banks delayed handling of losses worsen financial crises
VieDelayed handling of losses can destabilize financial systems, according to new research by Vienna University of Economics and Busin..
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The Macklowe divorce: How designer divorces have created a new arena for luxury assets
By: Estella Newbold-Brown is a partner at Stowe Family Law The rising value of luxury goods has led to an influx of couple..
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It pays to check your benefits as inaccuracies cost billions
4% of benefit expenditure was overpaid in FYE 2022 which is the highest overpayment rate to date. This amounted to £8.6bn of o..
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Pensioners braced for more misery as energy price cap set to soar
Yesterday Ofgem chief executive said he expected the energy price cap to hit £2,800 in October. This is after the cap was alre..
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Research reveals UK banks still need to win consumer trust around data protection
The report from global, cloud-led, data-centric software company NetApp also reveals the consumer desire for in-person interact..
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Londoners lead the way as one in five plan to downsize to fund retirement
Almost one in five (19%) people plan to downsize in retirement. Only two in five (40%) have ruled it out altogether. There were big r..
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