magazine 3 Apr 2025

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Balancing income and growth in retirement and investment trusts bowing to shareholder pressure.
Sale focuses FTSE 250 firm solely on the faster-growing Travel business
Three-stage strategy could mean significant capital returns
Nearly a third of the company’s cars are exported to the Americas
The government is stealthily raising money without increasing taxes directly
Helping with the process of taking cash out of a pension pot
Swedish fund EQT is investing heavily, including in UK energy storage
Consumer confidence continues to ebb away across the Atlantic
More people are choosing lockers rather than waiting for parcels to be collected or queueing at the Post Office
The picture implied by the data might surprise you
We look at ideas to help plan and inform your future
Boards are taking action to bring in discounts and boost shareholder returns, while Achilles has revealed its first activist campaign
German and Chinese stocks have outperformed the rest
The UK’s largest grocer has extended its lead over the competition
The US’s biggest bank needs to reassure the market when it reports
The focus in on assets which are hard to replicate and have low risk of technological disruption
The company has seen exceptionally strong growth in North America
CC Japan Income & Growth backs cash-generative Japanese companies and is forging a formidable dividend growth record
There is a risk the US resorts to extreme measures to solve the deficit