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Monevator

@Monevator

All about investing since 2007! Loves to explain but more to learn. Named best UK investing blog at the SHOMO Awards. Blog posts and tweets are NOT advice.

There’s a tipping point in your investment life when you realise you’ve got a lot of portfolio to protect. Going to the moon is yesterday’s game… monevator.com/derisking-your…


Good stuff. Imagine if all our tax thresholds and special investment allowances also went up with inflation like this… theguardian.com/money/2025/nov…


If you're not accounting for Brexit when looking at Britain's fiscal predicament then you're fighting a phoney war. Latest estimates put the hit to GDP at 6-8%! That has big ramifications. Plus all the best of the money and investing reads as ever! monevator.com/weekend-readin…


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Here are the fiscal facts as the Chancellor and Treasury currently understand them, with 11 days remaining before the budget. The hole she has to fill, to meet her fiscal rules, is now nearer £20bn than the £30bn to £35bn she had expected only a week ago. What's happened? What…


For young people listening to Ken Clarke, it must be like hearing otherworldly Gandalf amid the orcish chaos Believe it or not we used to have great politicians like this on all political sides

Ken Clarke -I live in a county with a Reform Council. Some of the people didn’t know it sat in the day so resigned quickly and most didn’t know what the council was responsible for. They fought on the promise of cutting waste and council by tax & they have just put it up. #bbcqt



The post-2016 law of UK politics is reasserting itself – that there's always somebody worse ready in the wings

Monevator's tweet image. The post-2016 law of UK politics is reasserting itself – that there's always somebody worse ready in the wings

The economics were always a little murky, but growing political risk and an inability to raise new money for ongoing investment means renewable infrastructure trusts are probably trading at scrap value here monevator.com/end-in-sight-f…


I for one can't wait until right wing politicians and their numpty footsoldiers take down the BBC and we can enjoy knowing that nothing we watch on TV should be trusted, just like our friends across the pond! propublica.org/article/portla…


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UK Job losses since 2024 budget continues to grow

baroninvestment's tweet image. UK Job losses since 2024 budget continues to grow

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I have invested $200M into the UK in the last five years. If @RachelReevesMP implements “Exit Tax” all that funding will go overnight. That is countless jobs, companies and people who will lose out. Rachel, you have managed to steal our hopes, our dreams even our growth,…


The BBC has made a (terrible) slip and the usual suspects are now trying to end it. Most of the media outlets they follow and re-tweet distort or lie a thousand times before breakfast. They can take their sanctimonious outrage and shove it.


If you live in London and/or you're interested in London residential real estate, you should sign-up for our spin-off newsletter Propegator – loads of links and choice properties to ponder each week! propegator.substack.com/p/a-new-hope-f…


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So after paying for my uni tuition that the boomers got for free, I now have to pay tax on my pension contributions when the boomers didn't, just to make sure that the boomers get an even more generous state pension with their final salary pensions, of which I will get neither.

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will use the Budget to impose a £2k-a-year limit on how much salary can go into a pension before paying National Insurance The move will raise £2bn and hit salary sacrifice schemes [@thetimes]



Is the situation desperate enough to break the pledge and raise income taxes? Plus all the week's best money and investing reads… monevator.com/weekend-readin…


Our brains-trust-in-chief explains why it is always rational to leverage a 60/40 portfolio (and more) to match your comfort level of volatility [Member post] monevator.com/yes-you-can-ea…


Think this might be my new favourite 'stock picking is wicked hard' chart… It'll resonated especially well with friends who've been on Ozempic

Monevator's tweet image. Think this might be my new favourite 'stock picking is wicked hard' chart…

It'll resonated especially well with friends who've been on Ozempic

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