Budget 2020 key takeaways: Coronavirus, tapered annual allowance raised and JISA boost

Highlights from first Budget of this Parliament

clock • 5 min read

Chancellor Rishi Sunak gave an assured performance delivering his first Budget as he promised to do "whatever it takes" to support the economy as concerns grow about the significant impact of the coronavirus. But what were the other main areas of interest for Investment Week readers?

To continue reading this article...

Join Investment Week for free

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the investment industry, including the Sustainable Hub covering fund news from the ESG space
  • Get ahead of regulatory and technological changes affecting fund management
  • Important and breaking news stories selected by the editors delivered straight to your inbox each day
  • Weekly members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from leading industry experts
  • Be the first to hear about our extensive events schedule and awards programmes

Join now

 

Already an Investment Week
member?

Login

More on Regulation

FCA secures $101m redress for investors from Michael Platt's BlueCrest

FCA secures $101m redress for investors from Michael Platt's BlueCrest

Follows lengthy legal dispute

Linus Uhlig
clock 15 October 2025 • 1 min read
FCA pushes on tokenisation remit in a bid to make asset management more efficient

FCA pushes on tokenisation remit in a bid to make asset management more efficient

Set out plans to support initiative

Eve Maddock-Jones
clock 14 October 2025 • 2 min read
Devon man jailed for £1.3m Ponzi scheme run from his bedroom

Devon man jailed for £1.3m Ponzi scheme run from his bedroom

FCA secures seven-and-a-half-year sentence

Sahar Nazir
clock 07 October 2025 • 3 min read
Trustpilot