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