Many Britons will be assessing their retirement plans in the coming months ahead of changes to pension rules next year. It comes as the state pension age is set to increase from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, and to 68 between 2044 and 2046.
Here’s a look at two changes in 2026 that could change your plans to retire.
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Pension rules are set to change next year following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’
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Mutual Funds: When planning to invest in mutual funds, the timing of your goal is your most important guide. Generally, the closer you are to needing the money, the safer your investment should be. For instance, if your goal is less than a year away, experts recommend parking your savings in debt mutual funds.
Buffett kept Berkshire’s own shareholders in the dark for a year.
In the late 1980s, Warren Buffett asked the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) for special permission not to disclose his trades for a year, on the grounds that his reputation as an investor was so formidable that news of his new investment would move markets.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) – President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law on Dec. 23, 1913.
The act created the Federal Reserve System.
It has a central, independent board of governors and 12 regional Federal Reserve banks throughout the country.
The Federal Reserve sets the nation’s monetary policy.
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NEW YORK — Wall Street’s main indexes were set to kick off the final week of the year on a lower note on Monday, as heavyweight technology stocks gave up some ground from last week’s gains, which had pushed the S&P 500 to new highs.
The benchmark S&P 500 was in the 1% range of the 7,000-point mark,
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped in morning trading on Wall Street Monday to kick off another holiday-shortened week.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4%. With just three trading days left in 2025, the benchmark index is still up more than 17% for the year and it remains on track for its eighth monthly gain in a row.
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At Berkshire Hathaway, cash has swelled to levels that dwarf the market capitalizations of many household-name companies. Estimates put the pile near $400 billion, much of it parked in short-dated U.S. Treasuries.
Berkshire didn’t wake up one morning and decide to sit on mountains of cash.
Lululemon (LULU) founder Chip Wilson hopes for change on company’s board in a proxy fight launched Monday as it searches for a new CEO, per the Wall Street Journal.
Wilson, who founded the company and served as CEO from 1998 to 2005,
