The tone of this week’s spending review was set days before the event itself when one of Labour’s bolder attempts to demonstrate its commitment to fiscal responsibility – axing the winter fuel payment ...

These are the Core UK Gilts ETF (IGLT), the Physical Gold ETC (SGLN) and three international equity index trackers: the S&P 500 ETF (CSP1), the MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EMIM) and the MSCI ...

Markets dislike this, as it reduces the potential attractiveness of foreign investment in the US. China has already voted with its feet, leaving the UK as the second-largest investor in US Treasuries ...

The index is now up 8.6 per cent year-to-date, which is a sign that a) it’s offering some relative shelter with defensive names, b) it’s benefiting from flow dynamics and c) is seen as potential ...

Shifting dynamics, where investor demand skews towards shorter maturity debt and interest costs are higher for long-term borrowing, compound the problem. It means a tremendous onus on economic growth ...

The gender pay gap increases with age, almost doubling between full-time employees in their 30s (4.4 per cent) and full-time employees in their 40s (9.1 per cent) – just around the age when many women ...