HAMISH MCRAE: None of us know whether the hump in inflation is just that – a hump – or whether it is becoming embedded By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 15 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 15 May 2021 If you go out for a drink or a meal this … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Message is clear, Government action on access to cash in our High Streets is imperative now By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2021 Nearly two years ago, I attended a ‘cash summit’ event hosted by consumer group Which? It … Read more
As the Daily Mail celebrates its 125th anniversary this week, my eye is drawn to the first-ever Money Mail front page hanging in my office. We are the oldest national newspaper personal finance section. Launched in September 1966, our goal was to help ordinary families make sense of the financial world and get the most … Read more
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, proclaims Proverbs. Since the 2017 merger of Martin Gilbert’s Aberdeen Asset Management and the dowager of Scottish insurance, Standard Life, the two firms have contrived to damage both titles. The idea that the group’s new identity Abrdn will have financial advisers up and down … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If ever we wanted a reminder that what happens in the US affects rest of us, fallout from Biden’s tax plan was as good a lesson as any By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 Joe Biden certainly spoilt the … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Is PensionBee a honeypot? The float hammers home that pensions are far too complicated Many people take an ostrich-view of their pension and adopt a position of inertia Romi Savova had the idea to set up PensionBee in 2014 because of her frustration at trying to transfer an old company pension when she … Read more
The life of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is one of such astonishing length and intensity, stretching so far back into the unreachable past and containing so much incident, adversity and adventure that it takes Shakespeare to sum it up: ‘We that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long.’ In fact the … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: The FCA is stuck in lockdown over the Woodford saga By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 10 April 2021 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 10 April 2021 Another week goes by and yet again there is more depressing news on fallout from the demise of the Woodford investment empire. … Read more
Freedom, or at least a little more latitude, comes tomorrow. The most obvious manifestation of the relaxing of the Covid-19 rules will be outdoor eating in pubs and restaurants, and the opening up of non-essential shops, as well as hairdressers. The country will feel different: not normal, but something more like those distant days we … Read more
Prince Philip has been such a constant and colourful feature of British life for so long it’s almost impossible to believe he’s no longer with us. Loved and admired in equal measure, his name has been synonymous with duty and public service since his marriage to the Queen 74 years ago. His sad passing, nine … Read more