Boost for debt: Britain’s Help to Buy subsidy scheme for first-time home buyers “looks like a political master stroke” as voters like it, but is “a… BizForums – UK
Over 2014 there has been a steady decline in the yield on German government bonds. As a result bunds have outperformed other developed markets. This outperformance could have been driven by two factors: The rising liquidity premium – the premium investors are willing...
With London Business School experts saying don’t expect returns of more than 3 or 4 per cent a year from equities over the next decade, and negative returns from bonds, savers should keep about half their capital in cash or near-cash securities, says Money Management...
This excellent report about the UK tax system by my friend Robin Mitchinson was originally published in his blog whydonttheylistentous. He does not live in the UK, but on the Isle of Man, a British tax haven. Regime in the UK The tax regime in the UK is a complete...
Thursday’s announcement by the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is not a game changer, it is an insurance policy. Mortgage affordability stress testing (3% above loan rate) and capping the proportion of high (4.5 times and above)...
