Cost of Living

The cost of living crisis is creating huge challenges for consumers and businesses across the UK. This specially-designed hub will feature content from across Investment Week, Professional Adviser and Cover analysing the impact of the crisis for our readers, including the investment, financial advice and protection communities, as they help clients through this difficult time. 

'The great Truss retreat': U-turn on 45% tax rate 'not the solution' to market turmoil

'The great Truss retreat': U-turn on 45% tax rate 'not the solution' to market turmoil

UK
Valeria Martinez
Valeria Martinez
clock 03 October 2022 • 3 min read
Commodities

Get ready for a glass shortage: The unexpected effects of the energy crisis

clock 03 October 2022 • 4 min read
Pensions

How the pensions industry dealt with the LDI crisis and what could happen next

clock 03 October 2022 • 8 min read
UK

Mini Budget threatens UK credit rating

clock 03 October 2022 • 1 min read
UK

Chancellor scraps plans to remove 45% income tax rate for high earners

clock 03 October 2022 • 1 min read
Economics

Treasury Committee calls for OBR forecast to be expedited due to 'continued market uncertainty'

clock 29 September 2022 • 3 min read
UK

Liz Truss defends Mini Budget despite BoE intervention

clock 29 September 2022 • 1 min read
BoE gilt market intervention gives 'breathing room' to embattled pension schemes

UK

BoE gilt market intervention gives 'breathing room' to embattled pension schemes

Intervention stabilises market

clock 28 September 2022 • 6 min read
Sterling currency crisis looms: Can the Bank of England steady the ship?

Currencies

Sterling currency crisis looms: Can the Bank of England steady the ship?

Industry split on sterling outlook

clock 28 September 2022 • 5 min read
Bank of England intervenes with temporary QE to stem sell-off

UK

Bank of England intervenes with temporary QE to stem sell-off

To 'restore market functionality'

clock 28 September 2022 • 1 min read
Kwarteng meets with bankers to calm market turmoil

UK

Kwarteng meets with bankers to calm market turmoil

Chancellor also met asset managers

clock 28 September 2022 • 1 min read
Fund managers are sacrificing long-term gains for capital survival

Investment

Fund managers are sacrificing long-term gains for capital survival

Painful to invest long-term now

clock 27 September 2022 • 4 min read
Jupiter's Buxton blames 'ESG zeitgeist' for energy crisis over Putin

ESG

Jupiter's Buxton blames 'ESG zeitgeist' for energy crisis over Putin

Decade of high oil and gas prices

clock 27 September 2022 • 3 min read
Bank of England rules out emergency rate rise as Treasury lines up new fiscal plan

UK

Bank of England rules out emergency rate rise as Treasury lines up new fiscal plan

Attempt to calm markets

clock 26 September 2022 • 2 min read
Emergency interest rate hike: 'Overreaction' or too little too late?

Economics

Emergency interest rate hike: 'Overreaction' or too little too late?

Tax cuts ‘economically illiterate’

clock 26 September 2022 • 4 min read
Sustainable-investment.com: Cost-of-living crisis increases attention on 'S' in ESG

ESG

Sustainable-investment.com: Cost-of-living crisis increases attention on 'S' in ESG

Less developed than E and G

clock 26 September 2022 • 3 min read
Kwarteng's Mini Budget sees sterling slump to record low versus the dollar

Currencies

Kwarteng's Mini Budget sees sterling slump to record low versus the dollar

Almost 5% decline

clock 26 September 2022 • 2 min read
Thirteen key takeaways from Mini Budget 2022

UK

Thirteen key takeaways from Mini Budget 2022

2.5% growth, tax cuts and Solvency II

clock 23 September 2022 • 7 min read
'Nothing mini about this Budget': Industry reacts to the largest package of tax cuts in five decades

UK

'Nothing mini about this Budget': Industry reacts to the largest package of tax cuts in five decades

'No magic money tree'

clock 23 September 2022 • 5 min read
Mini Budget triggers plunging pound and massive gilt sell-off

Economics

Mini Budget triggers plunging pound and massive gilt sell-off

Pound falls to 1985 levels

clock 23 September 2022 • 2 min read
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