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Pension Charge Cap Confirmed
Pension charges will be capped at 0.75% per year from April 2015, the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed.…
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Small Firms Want Auto-Enrolment Delay
More than 9 out of 10 employers who have not yet started automatically enrolling employees into a workplace pension would…
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SME Owners Not Identifying As Entrepreneurs
Small business owners are unlikely to consider themselves entrepreneurs, research by AXA has found. Less than half of individuals questioned…
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Savings Fall Between Spring And Summer
The amount people saved each month fell between spring and summer 2014, both as a percentage of monthly income and…
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Funding For SME Business Advice
Small businesses will be able to get funding for advice from business schools under a project run by the Small…
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Switch Guarantee Popular With Consumers
There has been a 22% increase on the number of bank account switches since the Current Account Switch Service was…
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Unemployment Rate Falls To 6%
The number of unemployed people fell by 154,000 to 1.97 million between June and August 2014, according to official figures.…
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Bill Introduces April 2015 Pension Reforms
Draft legislation that sets out the pension reforms announced at the 2014 Budget has now been published. The Taxation of…
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Couples Struggle With Financial Planning
Couples discuss their future finances but fail to turn their conversations into action, research by Prudential has found. The survey…
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Female representation increases on boards
Female representation on FTSE 100-listed companies has continued to increase, government figures have shown. Women now account for 22.8% of…
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Faster wage growth for private sector
Private sector wages are likely to rise faster than those in the public sector during the next 5 years, a…
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Savers face retirement shortfall
People saving for retirement are facing an average financial shortfall of almost £100 per week in retirement, a study by…
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Shop prises fall 1.8% in September
Shop prices fell by 1.8% in the year to September 2014, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC)…
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Over 55’s unmoved by pension reforms
The majority of people aged over 55 do not think the government’s pension reforms will impact them, according to a…
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Over 65’s best at reviewing savings
People over 65 are most likely to monitor the performance of their savings and switch to better-paying accounts, a survey…
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Brand Britain boosts businesses
Products labelled ‘Made in Britain’ are more attractive to overseas consumers than those with no declared country of origin, a…
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Majority of firms lack faith in young people
Nearly 9 in 10 businesses think young people leaving school are not prepared for the workplace, a study by the…
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A third to inherit family assets
A third of UK adults expect to inherit money or property from family members, according to a survey by GoCompare.com.…
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New online venture capital initiative announced
SMEs will be able to get help securing finance from angel and venture capital investors online. Online venture investment company,…
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UK SME’s outperform European rivals when Exporting
UK SMEs have seen bigger increases in their export turnover than their European counterparts, a survey by UPS has found.…
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Ground-breaking ceremony signals start of transformation of Norwich gateway
A special ground-breaking ceremony has taken place to celebrate the inception of a new student housing and community development set…
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Tax on inherited pensions abolished
The 55% tax charge on inherited pensions will be abolished from April 2015, the Chancellor George Osborne has announced. Inherited…
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Credit rating factors misunderstood
Just 2 out of 5 financial decision makers in UK SMEs have ever checked the business’s credit report, a survey…
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Slightly older peers key to financial education
Young people aged 16-21 could benefit from hearing financial mismanagement stories from those in the 22-29 age bracket, a report…
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Micro-business numbers surge
The number of micro businesses in the UK has grown by 43% since 2000, a report by insurance group RSA…
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