RPI reform to cost schemes and investors up to £130bn

James Phillips
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Potential changes to the way the Retail Prices Index (RPI) is calculated and reported could cause assets to fall by between £60bn and £130bn, according to various estimates.

The Treasury is consulting on aligning RPI with the housing-cost-based version of the Consumer Prices Index (CPIH) somewhere between 2025 and 2030 following years of criticism of how the inflation ...

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