Nine in ten people aged over 50 in the UK believe there should be a social care fee cap after PM Theresa May proposed to continue to charge anyone with more than £100,000.
The UK service sector experienced a slowdown in growth last month after hitting a four-month peak in April, according to the IHS Markit/CIPS UK Services PMI survey.
Almost half of UK employees had just 30 minutes or less of cyber security training last year, and the same amount believe opening any email on their work computer is safe.
Pension funds, central banks and sovereign wealth funds made fewer new investments in the UK last year than in any other region relative to their existing portfolios.
The UK recorded the largest decrease of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU in 2015, according to figures released by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Some 55% of UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are now cash flow negative, up from 42% last year, according to Mercers European Asset Allocation Report 2017.
The World Bank projects that UK GDP will grow by 1.7% in 2017, up from its 1.2% forecast in January earlier this year, despite a disappointing first quarter.
Millennials will need to take steps to supplement their retirement incomes because public pensions will not provide as large a safety net as they did to earlier generations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
Donald Trumps decision to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement is unlikely to have a major impact on global emissions by 2030 due to positive developments in China and India.
Just 2% of people would trust a fully automated robo-adviser to invest their money on their behalf, and only 26% would opt for robo-advice even if they got final approval on all decisions.
