Brexit has had a negative impact on the UK stock market, but we believe this means many stocks are now undervalued. As a result we are now telling clients UK focused funds represent a very attractive proposition for investors with a longer-term view. On a 12-month forward price/earnings basis the UK market is currently trading…
Why put the money away for the future if you are happy paying the dividend tax? Some business owners would rather take the money out and have this in their current account so that they have total control on this – presumably they believe they don’t control their pensions? But if they saw the following…
One of the notable occurrences from the selloff in recent weeks has been the marked performance differential between growth stocks and value stocks. Since the start of October, managers with a greater bias to growth stocks are down up to 10%, while managers with a value style bias have held up comparatively well and are…
It was another quiet Budget for pensions: the only tax related change was confirmation of the new lifetime allowance for the 2019/20 tax year. The increase in line with the Consumer Price Index has been rounded up to the nearest £1,000 rather than the nearest £100 as allowed for in the legislation, resulting in the…
