Weekly Market Summary Films

Saving an extra 1% of salary into pension can increase your pension pot by 25%.

Many people are already paying 5% of their salary into their workplace pension through auto-enrolment, with their employer contributing an additional 3%. However, they may not be aware that many employers are willing to match additional contributions up to certain limits, so they don’t take advantage of it.

13th April 2021

Number of people on payroll fallen by nearly 700,000 in last year.

Latest reports from The Office for National Statistics have indicated that in February 2021, the number of payroll employees had fallen by 693,000 over a 12 month period.

25th March 2021

Budget 2021.

3rd March 2021

Market Update – 14th April 2021.

As we highlighted in the Weekly Market Summary, the markets’ attention at the start of this week was firmly on yesterday’s (Tuesday 13 April 2021) US CPI inflation reading following last week’s large jump in US PPI inflation.

14th April 2021

Market Update – 9th April 2021.

As we speculated in the Weekly Market Summary, the reaction to last Friday’s stunning US employment data has been positive with most of the major equity markets showing gains on the week (with equity markets closed on Friday and Monday for Easter, we had to wait until Tuesday to see how the market would react).

9th April 2021

Market Update – 1st April 2021.

Although it is a shortened week thanks to the Easter holiday, it has already been filled with action – and we can expect plenty more as the week goes on.

1st April 2021