{"id":1389,"date":"2022-10-27T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2022-11-02T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T13:30:41","slug":"money-in-the-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/2022\/10\/27\/money-in-the-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Money &#8211; In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Healthy\ndividends<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>UK listed\ncompanies paid out \u00a337bn in shareholder dividends between April and June, up 38.6%\nfrom the same period last year, making Q2 the second largest UK dividend payout\non record<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Large\none-off special payments were a key driver, but underlying dividends, which\nexclude these volatile specials, jumped by 27% to \u00a332bn, boosted by weaker sterling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Pausing\npensions could be costly <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Analysis<sup>2<\/sup>\nhas revealed that reducing or stopping pension contributions, even for a\nrelatively short period of time such as a year, can have a significant impact\non your final pension pot, with savers potentially being thousands of pounds\nless well off in retirement. Almost all (93%) of those surveyed said they are\nfeeling the impact of increasing costs and inflation. Whilst 77% expect to have\nto make cutbacks on spending or saving, an encouragingly low figure of 6% said\nthey would reduce their pension contributions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>LINK\nGroup, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Standard Life, 2022\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong><em>It is important to take professional advice\nbefore making any decision relating to your personal finances. Information\nwithin this article is based on our current understanding and can be subject to\nchange without notice and the accuracy and completeness of the information\ncannot be guaranteed. It does not provide individual tailored investment advice\nand is for guidance only. Some rules may vary in different parts of the UK.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy dividends UK listed companies paid out \u00a337bn in shareholder dividends between April and June, up 38.6% from the same period last year, making Q2 the second largest UK dividend payout on record1. Large one-off special payments were a key driver, but underlying dividends, which exclude these volatile specials, jumped by 27% to \u00a332bn, boosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,77,78],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/quilter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}