The coming months will be a time of both opportunity and risk, but investors shouldn’t be cowed into staying on the side lines due to uncertainty in the markets.

High earners can feel hemmed in by continued tax raids pension savings, but by thinking outside the box they can find ample tax-efficient routes maximise their retirement savings.

Tax hikes and rising inflation bode ill for the wealthy in what many are predicting will be a “winter of discontent”, and possibly several worrying seasons after too.

Behavioural finance has an increasingly central part in conversations about investment risk, since managing emotional responses plays a key role in maximising returns.

All eyes are on China’s reform programme and the huge, likely underappreciated implications for investors in both the Chinese market and elsewhere.

Inflationary fears are cranking up, but there is a lot that savers can be doing to lessen the erosive impact it can have on their wealth – starting today.