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Capital gains tax on shares

Tax is a persistent pain when investing, slicing away at your hard-gotten gains. Here’s how to defuse future headaches when it comes to CGT.

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Capital gains tax rates look to be rising. Are you doing anything about it?

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Portfolio tracking tracked, plus all the latest money and investing reads…

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Inflation is down and the correction in bonds means expected returns are higher, too…

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A new SIPP survey tells us something – and nothing – about how people invest their money…

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Asset prices will probably move when central banks start cutting rates in earnest. Are you ready?

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Some of today’s eccentrics will be tomorrow’s mainstream punters…

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Blind Date for Investors

How do you find the investment strategy that you can stick with for life? Not like this I hope.

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Correcting market failure [Members]

How do you solve a problem like the London Stock Exchange?

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You’ve been crying out for a UK ISA, right? I mean, even the investing platforms said they didn’t want one but somebody must have asked for it. Perhaps it was you? Well, you and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who presumably wanted another bone to throw to the electorate. And so the Dad’s Army ISA has marched [...]

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The annual ISA allowance is £20,000 – across both cash and stocks and shares ISAs. But the details can be confusing…

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The Big Shrug: our movie pitch

Imagine if we fluffed our elevator pitch for The Big Short meets Monevator…

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Has your pension just become the ultimate estate planning vehicle for the wealthy masses?

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Genuinely exciting developments today in the typically somnolent world of pensions. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he’s scrapping the Lifetime Allowance for Pensions. Hunt is also significantly increasing the pension annual allowances. As per Hunt’s 2023 Spring Budget: The government will remove the Lifetime Allowance charge from 6 April 2023, before fully abolishing the Lifetime [...]

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Why your broker is happy for you to leave a big chunk of your portfolio lying around in cash…

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The aftermath of the September Mini Budget was chaotic. But already almost all of the damage has been washed away.

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