The Centre for Policy Studies was founded, says its website, "by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher in 1974 to promote the principles of a free society and has since played a global role in the dissemination of free market economics"... more
Veteran stockbroker Peter Hargreaves says the coalition could be Britain’s best Government ever — but only if it takes the axe to the public sector... more
Fears of a change in savings allowances after the general election led to investors putting £812 million in tax-free Isas at Hargreaves Lansdown in the 2009 tax year... more
Stunning. Audacious. Transformational. Breathtaking. All these words were linked with Prudential’s £24 billion deal to buy the Asian assets of America’s insurance disaster-case AIG. Why not this one: Customer?... more
Comment: Rod Kent is no patsy City grandee. Anyone who has had dealings with him knows that - but it is difficult to judge if BT's pensions agreement is correct... more
If there were ever any doubt about how bad the effects of recession will be and how long they might last the Bank of England’s plethora of lending data this week did all that was needed to dispel them ... more
Despite a forecast-busting 20% rise in pre-tax profits, Peter Hargreaves chief executive of the country’s biggest private client investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown was typically blunt ... more
Hugh Osmond is mad as hell, and he isn’t going to take it any more. The pizza guy-turned-insurance entrepreneur is so enraged at the prospect of being taxed on his pay at 50% that he may flounce out of the country
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Alistair Darling's "soak the rich" Budget will hit London four times harder than the rest of the UK and leave high earners paying nearly £5billion in extra taxes, the Mayor's senior aides claim... more
Investment: Britain's biggest distributor of investment funds has warned fund managers they must clean up their act and market their products fairly... more
Britain's biggest independent financial adviser brushes aside the effects of shaky financial markets, saying savvy UK investors are keeping their cash wrapped up in tax shelters... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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