Protecting Your Assets From a Labour Government: Merryn S. Webb

If the polls are even vaguely correct, Britons will vote for change in six weeks. The UK will have a Labour government a few months sooner than most commentators expected (although the exact date was predicted on the Merryn Talks Money podcast a month ago.) With that in mind, it’s worth asking what that might mean for your money —and if there is anything you can do in advance of an onslaught of new policy.

The first and most obvious thing to think about is your pension. Any new finance minister will be. There is more than £2 trillion ($2.6 trillion) held in pension funds ...