Happily, intrepid retirees have sent us back reports from the frontier with enough detail to fill in the ‘Here Be Dragons’ gaps in your FI map. The resultant research –Retirement Living Standards in the UK in 2023– plots three tiers of retirement spending: from Minimal to Moderate to Com...
If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, such as an improvement in the borrower's credit rating, the allowance is adjusted and the amount of the reversal is ...
These higher prices will be a stronger deterrent if accompanied by restrictions on packaging, flavours, display and availability. The government isplanning such restrictionsas part of the forthcoming tobacco and vapes Bill. This will create a broad and welcome pac...
She has to make do with falling revenues from fuel and tobacco duties and try to pump more money into the likes of the NHS, other public services, local government, higher education etc. The new government has also pledged to boost investment, which will be financed from further borrowing ...
Core CPI – all items minus food, energy, alcohol and tobacco – rose by 3.2% in the 12 months to September 2024, down from 3.6% in August. Sam Bromley, Lead Writer and Personal Finance Expert at NerdWallet What Our Nerds Say “The CPI measures the change in prices UK consumers pay fo...
How was this economic miracle pulled off by a country that was often described in the 1960s and 1970s as the sick man of Europe? According to some detailed analysis ofdeleveragingby Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, virtually all of the debt was just inflated away. ...
Halifax gives you unfettered access to the London Stock Exchange. This means that you will be able to buy and sell hundreds of UK-listed companies at the click of a button. Whether its equities involved in the energies, construction, retail, tobacco, or technologies sectors; you’re likely ...
There are a number of steps that could be taken to influence differential exposures. One obvious target for action is to protect newly diagnosed children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), since this may be the single most important explanatory factor for SES-related inequalities in ...