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Would a three-month delay just kick the can down the road and lead to another cohort of buyers potentially affected, whereas a proper tax cut would boost home moving permanently?

The Isa is a fantastic saving and investing invention. It wraps around your savings and investments, protecting them from tax on interest, profits and dividends, and is a wonderful way to build long-term wealth. To my mind, outside of the money you stash away for your pension, saving or investing into an Isa is a no-brainer. But the Isa system also needs a radical change, because it’s not up to scratch anymore. Its time to fix the Isa system to make it more suitable for the modern age and all...

Isas turn 22 this year and the system has been widely panned as complicated   This comes after the introduction of multiple new Isas by George Osborne  The rules around paying into Isas also remain restrictive in some cases The Chancellor has been urged to simplify the system and act on proposals put forward in 2018 to bring all Isas under one umbrella 

A dash for detached homes and the hunt for more space in lockdown helped send the average house price in the UK up £20,000 in 2020, official figures revealed. House prices increased by 8.5 per cent in 2020, reaching a record high of £252,000, aided by lockdown buyers looking for bigger homes and the stamp duty holiday launched in July.  The annual level of growth was the highest Britain has seen since October 2014, according to new data published by the Office for National Statistics, but t...

I would like to invest in shares for my 10-year-old grandson and for him to eventually start making the investment decisions.

We discuss the sectors and companies that could see a rerating in the path out of lockdown and benefit from the momentum-driven market turning their attention to them.

Why didnt GDP fall in the final stretch of last year, is there any way we could we claw our way to growth, and how bad was the coronavirus year of 2020 for the UK?

One in five people have tried and abandoned investing - and blame losses and volatile markets for pulling out their cash, new research reveals. The challenges of keeping on top of information to make good decisions and understanding the jargon were other common reasons for giving up on investments. Investors often make mistakes, but learning from them can help you do better in future.  The key is to take a longer term view and don’t panic, according to broker Charles Stanley Direct, which su...

The research is led by Dr. Caroline Tait (PhD), a medical anthropologist with expertise in gender and cultural safety in the USask College of Medicine and a member of Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN–S), and Dr. Simon Lambert (PhD), an Indigenous (Māori) researcher in the College of Arts and Science with expertise in Indigenous disaster risk reduction, and a member of the Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani tribes from Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr. Tait leads the FMHRN Saskatchewan’s Network Environments...

Posted: Jan 29, 2021 10:36 AM CT | Last Updated: January 29 A wildfire rages through the La Ronge, Sask., area in 2015.(Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations) Saskatchewan researchers have been awarded a grant to work toward changing emergency response in First Nations and Métis communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) was named one of the 15 winners of the North American 2020 TD Ready Challenge presented by TD Bank Group. A $650...