Finances

  • The Budget offers a chance for protections

    The matters people face everyday are guided by concerns over safety and security. It’s in the fine print of worries about online data and the use of cookies in a browser or adverts in email inboxes.

    This is how we do it now. We have to think about how safe our information is, and about how secure our finances really are.

    The Treasury is about to release another Budget to the country, and it’s about time these issues are covered. They can’t be left to statements or new internal policies that guide law enforcement.

    It must be built into the framework of a responsible fiscal outlook. The changes the Government mandates must work out for us or we’re left to the wolves of finance.

  • Investing is a new normal

    The London Stock Exchange is an example of how public finance is moved around. This is what money becomes when it’s invested in stocks and shares. There is, of course, much more to moving money than this simple manoeuvre.

    The financial crashes of history are not a thing of the past, but the way it’s done now is much safer. It’s a good thing, because many millions of people do it. The ease of app’s, and other online trading options, makes investing attractive.

  • Business Leader: Hargreaves Lansdown

    Origin

    The startup of an investment firm from a house isn’t an ordinary origins story for a UK-based company, but it’s the truth behind the successful rise of Hargreaves Lansdown.

    Present Day

    The hard work ethic of Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown paid off, and their initial supply of investment mailings turned itself into the UK’s largest digital platform.

    The founders – Hargreaves Lansdown

    Distinctives

    Their popular online accounts offer access to ISA’s, stocks and shares, and investment funds. It’s publicly listed as Hargreaves Lansdown (HL). It’s based in Bristol.

  • Westminster Week: Navigating issues

    Tuesday

    If it isn’t smoking, it’s vaping. A bill designed to regulate the industry has reached its culmination in the House of Commons. It covers tobacco, but also liquid solutions inside devices that people can puff on to get a good feeling out.

    It’s a tetchy subject, as Mary Glindon MP (Labour/Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend) pointed out. She’s worried about “youth vaping” , a phenomenon a government finds hard to handle.

    Simon Hoare MP (North Dorset/Conservatives) believes it’s a “passport away from tobacco”, but it’s still a way off not doing it at all. In any case, if the country feels it can move on from smoking proper, maybe further progress is needed to bring an end altogether.

    Wednesday

    A debate about a budget and how people are feeling is a tetchy exchange between Labour and Conservatives. Furthermore, a second reading of the Finance Bill provided a further occasion to see MP’s lock horns, to find out who’s still on top.

    In the aftermath of a controversial set of announcements by the Chancellor, Nesil Caliskan MP (Barking/Labour) stood in her defence, to declare an era of “a responsible government, and a government that will take tight fiscal rules seriously”.

    It isn’t easy to say, considering the Tories always disagree. However, Kanishka Narayan MP (Vale of Glamorgan/Labour) also heralded a new Labour day, calling the budget “daffodil laden”.

  • Reeves’ first budget (National News Report)

  • What a budget means