Investors withdrew £5bn from equity funds in October as concerns about the impact of Budget measures rose rapidly, according to Investment Association data.

Over one in four savers (27%) expect to be either totally or heavily reliant on the State Pension in retirement.

The Chancellor has confirmed in an interview with Martin Lewis that pensioners whose sole income is the state pension will not have to pay income tax once it breaches the threshold for paying basic rate tax.

The top 10% of earners are expected to see more than £2,000 extra average in tax as a result of the changes announced in the latest Budget, according to analysis by Hargreaves Lansdown.

In the Budget today Rachel Reeves announced that the rate of tax paid on dividends, property and savings will rise two percentage points.

The thresholds at which people pay income tax will be frozen until the end of the 2030/31 financial year it was revealed in the Budget, longer than most experts predicted.

The government is reportedly planning to cut the cash ISA annual allowance to just £12,000 in today’s Budget.

The Budget rumours in recent weeks have sparked a record tax year so far for the number of people paying into SIPPs, stocks and shares ISAs, cash ISAs, JISAs and LISAs from Hargreaves Lansdown.

NS&I has boosted the rates of its British Savings Bonds to up to 4.2% AER and has launched new issues of one, two, three and five year fixed-rate bonds.

More than a third of people aged 60 to 78 have no plans for their tax-free cash, meaning they are risking a knee-jerk reaction to Budget rumours they could regret.

Inheritance tax receipts hit £4.39bn in the first six months of the 2025/26 tax year, according to data released today by HMRC.

The government’s Pension Tracing Service received 273,709 calls between January 2021 and September 2025 from people keen to trace 'lost' retirement savings. 

London dominates the UK regions where households are least likely to be on track for an adequate retirement income, according to new research.

Investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown has notched up its milestone 2 millionth client and has also seen record assets under management, according to its 2025 Annual Report.

Investment platform provider Hargreaves Lansdown will offer its own-branded savings deposit account for the first time through a partnership with Shawbrook Bank.

A third (32%) of UK savers expect to need an inheritance to have enough income to live on in retirement.

Unless there is a big surge in inflation in the next two months, the state pension will rise by 4.7% next April.

Hargreaves Lansdown has partnered with Schroders Capital to add two of its private markets long-term asset funds (LTAFs) to the platform.

Two-fifths, 39%, of people say a guaranteed income would be their main priority in retirement.

Of the 8.8m households in a position to invest, some 42% of them, almost 4m, do not bother, according to new research.