• Market Commentary from Quilter
     Global economic growth is expected to slow significantly in 2012 but – with this already factored in – a few items of good news alongside hints of further pump-priming by central banks helped the rally in risk assets extend into January… Quilter, February 2012 [more]
    February 17, 2012, 2:57 pm
  • Coalition set to debate pension tax relief cuts
    Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has reiterated the Liberal Democrats’ commitment to scrap or further restrict higher-rate pension tax relief…   MoneyMarketing, 13th February 2012 [more]
    February 13, 2012, 11:06 am
  • Echoes From The Gilded Age
    7IM’s comment on the global economy, 10th February 2012 [more]
    February 13, 2012, 11:03 am
  • Unite rejects NHS pensions deal
    Trade union Unite has unanimously rejected the Government’s latest proposals for reform of the NHS pension scheme…   MoneyMarketing, 5th January 2012 [more]
    January 6, 2012, 9:53 am
  • That was the year that wasn’t
    It is (alas!) the time of year when financial journalists take stock of the events of the last twelve months…  7IM’s comment, 29th December 2011 [more]
    January 5, 2012, 3:57 pm
  • Deal or no deal?
    7IM’s market commentary on the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis   December 2011 [more]
    December 13, 2011, 3:44 pm
  • Quilter Market Commentary
     The new technocrat governments in Greece and Italy have failed to appease bond investors who recently forced Spain, Italy, France and even Germany into expensive and poorly subscribed debt refinancing auctions… December 2011 [more]
    December 12, 2011, 11:14 am
  • Simples?
    7IM’s comment on fixing the Eurozone  5th December 2011 [more]
    December 12, 2011, 11:12 am
  • Budget could see pension tax upheaval
    The Treasury is likely to announce a review of pension tax in next year’s Budget which could see higher-rate relief cut… Money Marketing, 1st December 2011 [more]
    December 8, 2011, 1:49 pm
  • George Osborne confirms state pension age will rise to 67
    Increase announced in autumn statement will be phased in over two years from April 2026 ‘in response to rising life expectancy’.  Guardian, 29th November 2011 [more]
    December 5, 2011, 11:34 am