Market Intelligence

Last month FSL attended the Chartered Governance Institute’s (CGI) ESG Summit 2022.  The focus of the day was on how to steer ESG changes within the boardroom and understanding the changing [...]

One danger with a blog that runs monthly is that some juicy, relevant topics can come and go in the public’s attention before we’ve even planned the next post.  On the other hand, a view taken [...]

FSL’s Chain Mail is a regular blog containing links to news articles that we think are worth sharing. Rampant inflation, anxieties surrounding interest rate hikes and geopolitical uncertainties [...]

Four months on from COP26, FSL representatives attended the seventh edition of the Economists Sustainability Week. The event scrutinized how existing policy and regulatory frameworks have [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a piece in Taxation magazine got me thinking.  It was about the tax relief for selling your main home (the tax technical name is Principal Private Residence relief or PPR [...]

Below is a summary of items announced that may be relevant to FSL clients. For more detail, please refer to the GOV.UK website. Personal Tax: National Insurance threshold increase: From July the [...]

On the 1st March, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) ran a joint online debate on the proposal for a windfall tax on the profits of North Sea [...]

As a result of the extraordinary momentum for ESG in the market and government policy during 2021, investors, corporations and world leaders have raised hopes for meaningful progress on climate [...]

Welcome to the first edition of Tax Talk.  To ease in to the series, this month we will take a general look at some of the common tax-efficient investments out there.  This is only a brief [...]

Welcome to Tax Talk, a new blog which will cover all things from EIS to OTS, written by FSL’s own Tax specialist, Alex Ranahan. This series of articles will provide Alex’s thoughts on different [...]