Financial Planning

Saturday is the final day of this year’s Royal Ascot where the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes is the Group 1 feature race. We also have the Hardwicke Stakes and Jersey…

Octopus Energy will pay the UK government an early £3bn windfall after the company promised to reimburse all the public funds it received to take over the collapsed energy supplier…

Rolls-Royce has cemented its status as a darling of the London Stock Exchange after its value passed £40bn for the first time ever. The Derby-headquartered aerospace giant has seen its…

The UK government borrowed £15bn last month, almost a billion pounds more than the previous year and the highest for May since the Covid-19 pandemic. In fresh figures from the…

Rachel Reeves has told businesses that they have “nothing to worry about” when it comes to Labour’s workers’ rights reforms. Speaking at The Times CEO Summit yesterday, the shadow Chancellor…

Britvic, the company behind brands such as Robinsons squash, has rejected a second takeover offer from Carlsberg worth around £3bn. The Hemel Hempstead-headquartered company, which has an exclusive licence with…

Advertising giant M&C Saatchi has hired Simon Fuller as its new chief financial officer, the firm announced today. The company said Fuller has held the CFO position at publisher Reach…

Lord Alan Sugar has formally invested in the company run by the winner of the latest series of The Apprentice. Rachel Woolford triumphed over pie company chief Phil Turner in…

Consumer confidence picked up again in June, a new survey shows, in a sign that the improving economic outlook is slowly feeding through into household budgets. GfK’s overall consumer confidence…

Pharmaceuticals giant GSK has said it is “unequivocally” committed to its London listing in a soothing sign for the City after a flood of exits from the market this year.…