Waitrose’s ‘golden pension’ under fire

With its 3.1% rise in sales over the festive period, and its consequent cementing in the key Christmas trading period, you may have been thinking all is rosy at upmarket grocer Waitrose. Yet beneath the record sales is a record pension deficit currently totalling GBP 840 million. Revealed after an investigation in March 2013, the […]

Global Balance Of Economic Power Is Shifting

Ebbing and flowing economic power around the globe has caused the British government to look at how changing wealth patterns will affect government policy – but they are also a useful indicator for investors as well. The report points out that financial power is not shifting inside traditional national boundaries, but in other more subtle […]