Retirement Planning

Forcing pension funds to disclose how much they invest in the homegrown companies could “backfire on British business” as savers will shun under-performing UK-focused schemes, AJ Bell has warned. In …

Unless Jeremy Hunt produces a genetically-modified rabbit of alarming proportion in tomorrow’s budget, the legacy of this Conservative government on matters of tax and spend will be an ugly one; …

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will take centre stage tomorrow when he delivers the Spring Budget but investors are likely to pay just as much attention to the Office for Budget Responsibility …

The number of UK mergers and acquisition (M&A) deals continued to fall in the final three months of 2023, with December seeing the lowest number since the coronavirus pandemic began. …

Celebrity Big Brother is airing on ITV 1 and ITVX Marcus Bentley is knackered.  He’s been the voice of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother for 23 years, ever since …

Nando’s has hired a veteran of the motor finance industry as its new UK&I chief executive. Mark Standish was previously CEO of MotoNovo Finance for almost 22 years, having started …

There’s no ‘curtain up’ in Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’. The music, a sudden chord from the brass, starts before the lights even get a chance to …

Business activity in the UK’s all-important services sector was weaker than first thought in February, but it remained higher than at any point in the second half of 2023, a …

Media and hospitality group Time Out gave a positive update to the market today, as it steamed ahead with its international expansion plan.  This morning, the British business which initially …

A downturn in the house building market led to profits at Travis Perkins being slashed by £175m during its latest financial year. The Northampton-headquartered company has reported pre-tax profits of …