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According to a recent report, children born in 2012 will not be able to receive the state pension until they are 77 years old, and their children will need to continue working until their 80s. Currently men are eligible to draw the state pension on their 65th birthday, and women can start to receive theirs [...]
The Bank of England has decided to delay another round of quantitative easing (QE), despite high inflation and the country returning to recession. The first time the country has experienced a double dip recession since 1975. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), elected yesterday to keep the QE programme as it stands at £325 billion. The [...]
With the country slipping back into recession the Bank of England have to make a decision as to whether to start another round of quantitative easing. Financial experts cannot agree if the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will decide to go ahead and increase the quantitative easing past the £325 billion that has already been raised. [...]
The Bank of England base rate has been sitting almost immovably at the historic low of just 0.50% for more than three years giving savers little or no choice about settling for low returns on their investments. Low interest rates, rampaging inflation coupled with a £275 billion program of quantitive easing have created a perfect [...]
Pension experts have predicted that final-salary pension numbers will be at an all-time low by the year 2020. A report, published by the Pension Policy Institute, estimates that by 2020 the amount of gold-plated pension schemes still going will be less than a million, and employees will be forced to contribute to alternative, cheaper to [...]
Britain’s largest care home company, the Four Seasons, is being bought out by the private equity firm Terra Firma. The acquisition is being funded by a combination of equity and debt secured by Goldman Sachs and Barclays. The founder and chairman of the company, Guy Hands released a statement earlier this week saying: “Our [...]
Employees may be forced to retire once they reach 65 if their bosses can prove it is in the “public interest” the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Firms have been given the go-ahead to get rid of workers over a certain age if they conform to certain guidelines, despite the Government abolishing the default retirement [...]
350 UK firms are to be handed relief this week, as a lifeline is thrown to companies who are having difficulties maintaining expensive final-salary pension schemes in the current economic climate. The Pensions Regulator has announced what it calls a ‘pragmatic’ move that will hopefully sure up the pensions for thousands of private sector [...]
Finding a home where cash can grow tax-free is not easy – but Chancellor George Osborne has left a door ajar for retirement savers who have swallowed their ISA limits. Years ago, qualifying insurance policies were popular investments offering life cover coupled with tax-free growth on savings. They dropped out of the headlines after the [...]
Thousands of vulnerable elderly and disabled people are bearing the brunt of severe cuts by local councils, as budgets for social care have been slashed to save £1 billion. Some local councils are cutting their spending by up to 10%, this has led to care homes closing, social workers laid off and general social care [...]
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