{"id":653,"date":"2016-01-13T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=653"},"modified":"2016-01-13T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:15:07","slug":"the-week-in-numbers-13-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/the-week-in-numbers-13-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Numbers – 13th January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week in Numbers<\/h3>\n

225<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Number of Investment Advisers Santander expects to employ by the end of March\"blue<\/a><\/p>\n

7%<\/strong> <\/span>– Fall in China\u2019s CSI 300 index on Monday, triggering newly-introduced \u201cCircuit-Breakers\u201d that halted trading for the day<\/p>\n

21%<\/strong><\/span> – Rise in mortgage approvals year-on-year in November, according to Bank of England Figures<\/p>\n

13k<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Number of new affordable homes the Government plans to build this year through directly commissioning \u201csmall and up-and-coming\u201d building companies<\/p>\n

\u00a350k<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Amount raised by two landlords seeking to fight Government plans to raise taxes on buy-to-let investments<\/p>\n

105,153<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Signatures backing a campaign to ease the transition for women affected by increases in the women\u2019s state pension age (figure correct at time of original writing)<\/p>\n

\u00a3615m<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Amount by which Government has undershot its tax avoidance revenue raising target, according to the Office for Budge Responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u00a34m<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 MAS marketing budget for 2016\/17<\/p>\n

\u00a330.1m<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Budget for \u201cmoney guidance\u201d in 2016\/17, down from \u00a334.1m in 2015\/16<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would be worried if we went back to the bad old days\u201d<\/em><\/span> \u2013 Independent pensions expert Alan Higham on the prospect of a return of commission-like charging structures.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Originally published in Money Marketing Magazine 7th<\/sup> January 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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