The Chancellor sets out his cost savings for the next four years The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne delivered on 20 October – the ‘Spending Review 2010’ – using his speech to announce the key headlines of the Spending Review – with one of the stand-out figures being a further £7bn cut in welfare [...]

Finances set between 2011 and 2015 based on government figures Current spending includes items such as salaries, hospital medicines, and school text books. Capital spending includes assets such as school buildings, roads and bridges. Business, Innovation and Skills Annual budget: £21.2bn Sending Review 2010 cut: Current spending down 25 per cent; capital spending down 52 [...]

Businesses will receive at least £150m in government funding to help them access loans and equity investments over the next four years. The additional funding will ensure the small firm’s loan guarantee scheme, called the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, will continue for four years. Further monies will be made available to ‘small businesses with growth potential’, [...]

Achieving positive growth in bear as well as bull markets During both bear as well as bull markets, absolute return funds aim to achieve positive growth. They offer ordinary investors access to a range of sophisticated investment techniques and seek to deliver a positive (or ‘absolute’) return every year regardless of what is happening in [...]