MR MONEY MAKER: Being a Boxing Day sloth makes for long-term wealth

MR MONEY MAKER: Being a Boxing Day sloth and leaving investments alone can make for long-term wealth, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 10:18 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 10:18 GMT, 26 December 2020 Boxing Day used to be the day for long walks, for some, watching … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Wealth taxes don’t work

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Persecution of supposedly rich, whilst imagining rest of us can escape share of bill not realistic way to repair national balance sheet Covid-19, a virus with no respect for wealth or status, has reminded us of our common humanity  It has also exposed deep inequalities – we may be in the same storm … Read more

Tammy Hembrow flaunts her wealth and success after buying house

Tammy Hembrow, 26, celebrates buying a $2.88million five-bedroom waterfront mansion on the Gold Coast – and gives fans a sneak peek tour By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:09 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 06:09 GMT, 20 December 2020 Fitness influencer Tammy Hembrow, 26, purchased a $2.88million five-bedroom waterfront mansion on the … Read more

Schroders Personal Wealth slashing quarter of workforce

Schroders Personal Wealth slashing nearly a quarter of its workforce in major restructuring under new boss By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 12 December 2020 | Updated: 22:42 GMT, 12 December 2020 Schroders Personal Wealth is slashing nearly a quarter of its workforce in a major restructuring under new boss Mark … Read more

Would a ‘wealth tax’ work in Britain? This is Money podcast

We publish our podcast every Friday to the player on This is Money, above, and on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) and on the podcast platforms Audioboom and Acast, both of which allow you to listen on desktop, mobile, or download an app. We also now publish to Spotify. To download the Apple Podcasts app if you … Read more

American billionaires have grown their wealth by a third since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 

U.S. billionaires have grown their wealth by more than $1trillion since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, an increase of over a third, according to a new report. The analysis found that the 650 billionaires gained $1.008 trillion in wealth between March 18, 2020 and November 24, 2020 and are now worth a combined total … Read more

What is capital gains tax, and will a new raid on wealth affect you?

Britain’s wealthiest taxpayers could be in for a multi-billion-pound tax raid after the Government’s tax gurus recommended a major overhaul of capital gains tax. In July, the Office of Tax Simplification was tasked by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to look at whether the levy on asset sales was ‘fit for purpose’ and how it could be simplified.  This … Read more

Lessons from first Covid shutdown can boost your wealth

Deja vu, Groundhog Day – call it what you like, we are in national lockdown again.  And while that well-known phrase ‘past performance is no indicator of future results’ still applies, are there any investment lessons we can learn from the first lockdown?  Back in March, we highlighted possible stock market winners in the event … Read more

Wealth manager Quilter sees assets rise by £2bn thanks to markets recovering

Wealth manager Quilter sees assets rise by £2bn thanks to markets recovering but new client money was largely absent Quilter’s assets reached £109.5bn in three months to end of September  Major migration of assets from existing platform to our new platform underway By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 11:16 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: … Read more

How the rich just got richer: UK billionaires’ wealth soars by 35%

The Covid-19 crisis has hammered the finances of households across the UK. But according to a report, the rich are getting even richer – with Britain’s billionaires seeing their wealth soar by more than a third over the past year. Swiss bank UBS says the combined wealth of the world’s billionaires has topped $10trillion (£7.7trillion) … Read more