Sylvester Turner, former Houston mayor and U.S. congressman, has died at 70, leaving behind a legacy of leadership, fiscal reform, and community advocacy.

UK residents under 73 have until 5th April 2025, to boost their state pension by paying for missing National Insurance years from 2006-2018.

Government proposes major overhaul of disability benefits amid concerns over NHS backlogs and patient wait times for mental health treatment.

The retail giant plans to achieve this by implementing a series of measures, including pay increases aligned with the true cost of living and year-end bonuses tied to the company's FY23 performance.

A recent report has highlighted how people 50 years of age and above are living on credit to make ends meet due to the cost-of-living crisis fueled by high inflation and energy bills.

Former royal aide Sir Edward Young received the amount as part of his redundancy package.

A recent report describes this phenomenon of people postponing their retirement plans as "the great un-retirement", given the number of people out of the labour market has reduced compared to last year.

A recent study shows that numerous UK investors are unaware of tax-efficient investment options such as ETFs, IFISAs and other products beyond traditional ISAs.

European banks risk jeopardising the path to net-zero carbon emissions and the growth of renewable energy unless they stop directly financing new oil and gas fields this year, investors managing assets worth more than $1.5 trillion said on Friday.

Italy's new far-right government unveiled its 2023 draft budget on Tuesday, with most of the nearly 35 billion euros in spending going on the energy crisis rather than flashy electoral promises.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's first budget, due to be approved by her cabinet on Monday, will focus on curbing sky-high energy bills and cutting taxes for payroll workers and the self-employed, government officials said.

Italy aims to follow a cautious fiscal policy in order to lower its public debt but is ready to act quickly to curb surging energy costs and head off recession risks, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti told parliament on Wednesday.

The recent crisis in Britain's government bond market means smaller UK pension schemes may fork out more money for a bespoke liability-driven investment (LDI) strategy in future to ensure better protection, industry sources say.

Sudden changes in the gilts market are rare, but when they do happen it can cause major problems for certain types of pension scheme.

British company owners are pulling investments as a crisis triggered in Westminster pushes up borrowing costs and hits confidence in an economy once seen by businesses as a haven of stability.

Britain's economy looks set to go into recession as data showed it unexpectedly shrank in August, underscoring the challenge for Prime Minister Liz Truss to make good on her promises to speed up growth.

The Bank of England moved to ease concerns about the expiry at the end of this week of its emergency programme to calm turmoil in the government bond market, including a doubling of the maximum size of its planned debt buy-back on Monday.

The world's central bankers are caught up in a race to curb inflation that only the Federal Reserve can stop.

Calls to the Bank of England saying some British pension funds were struggling to meet margin calls began on Monday. By Wednesday they were getting more urgent and coordinated.

Authorities in India cancelled more than 500 trains services on Monday because of calls for protests by young men angry with a military recruitment plan that they say will rob them of the opportunity of a career in the armed forces.

Leading UK and U.S. pension investors managing more than $1 trillion have launched a campaign to stop companies using dual-class share structures that concentrate voting power in the hands of certain shareholders at the expense of others.

The World Cup-winning rugby star claimed government aid for his one-employee company Kimble Trading Ltd.

All 81 branches of the children's toy store are expected to remain open for the foreseeable future,

Students at universities could see their final-year exams cancelled as academics plan to increase their strikes.

the collapse of Carillion says a great deal about the state of Britain in the twenty-first century.

Construction giant has debts of £900m and entered voluntary liquidation after talks to keep it afloat failed.

Government talks are taking place to save Carillon, one of the contractors for high-speed rail link HS2, but ministers have reportedly ruled out a financial bailout.

News broke this morning that the NHS were facing an unprecedented 'crisis'. We spoke to staff who said that others like them have been "leaving on their knees".

The retail brand is required to put £9m into its pension fund for the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to agree to its restructuring plan.

Up to 3,200 jobs are at risk at troubled toy retailer Toys R Us after the Pension Protection Fund told it to plug a black hole in its pension scheme.