Four of the five cheapest stock markets in the world today are in emerging markets, according to analysis by the publication Investment Week*. Russia, Turkey, Poland and Korea are joined in the ranking by sole developed market Spain. Turkey has been...
It’s August. Airports around the world would typically be bustling with...
After my old banger finally bit the dust last week, we spent Saturday car...
Greater inclusiveness, enhanced productivity, improved living standards and a...
Before the early 1990s, experts generally considered 5% to be a safe amount for retirees to withdraw from their investments each year in order to provide a steady income stream, whilst also maintaining the current level of their savings. However,...
The UK equity market has seen a plethora of dividend cuts and rights issues in the wake of the...
FundCalibre’s Investing on the go podcasts have developed a theme in recent weeks: how to make up...
Income investors are likely to lose out on billions of pounds in dividends this year, as a cessation...
In the four years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, European equities have outshone their UK counterparts, with returns three times that of British companies. The average fund in the IA Europe ex UK sector has returned 42.79%* since the...
Finding the best fund managers is both a science and an art form: you need experience and gut feel...
Morgan Stanley has completed a hat trick by claiming the number one spot in the FundCalibre Fund...
January had a rocky a start. Stock markets around the world – worried that the US central bank would...
It is often said that the Japanese market takes the world’s woes on its shoulders, but in the recent market sell-off, its stock market, the Nikkei, fell less than both the UK and Europe and has staged an earlier comeback. Amongst developed markets,...
The UK equity market has seen a plethora of dividend cuts and rights issues in the wake of the...
The latest Global Dividend Index from Janus Henderson suggests that dividends around the world could...
2020 started strongly for the US. Its stock market had led a ten year-bull market and continued to...
Once the mainstay of most equity income portfolios, banks have had a torrid time over the past 10 years or so and have become unloved by UK investors. Having been the cause of the global financial crisis, the sector came under a tremendous amount of...
This week’s mini-Budget from Chancellor Rishi Sunak was all about the government’s ‘Plan for Jobs’....
Having shown remarkable resilience since the Brexit vote of 2016, UK smaller companies find...
Unstable politics and Brexit played a key role in what was a difficult decade for those investing in...
Four of the five cheapest stock markets in the world today are in emerging markets, according to analysis by the publication Investment Week*. Russia, Turkey, Poland and Korea are joined in the ranking by sole developed market Spain. Turkey has been...
Greater inclusiveness, enhanced productivity, improved living standards and a drive towards the...
With many of its countries now coming out of lockdown and with Western economies struggling to come...
On 23 January 2020, when China announced it was shutting down Wuhan (the centre of the coronavirus...
This week’s mini-Budget from Chancellor Rishi Sunak was all about the government’s ‘Plan for Jobs’. With 9 million Brits currently on furlough, and more young people about to leave education and enter the employment market, his focus was on...
In the four years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, European equities have outshone...
In what could be one of the biggest shake-ups of the FTSE 100 in the past decade, Easyjet, Carnival,...
Going right back to basics, oil, like most commodities, trades with both a spot price (which is what...
The UK housing market began its lockdown easing last month, with people in England once again allowed to move house. Estate Agents were opened, viewings are now permitted and removal companies and other essential parts of the sales and letting...
With interest rates stuck at record lows and dividends under pressure, the search for investment...
How we shop has changed markedly over the past few years. I can remember trips to the high street...
After a surge in redemptions following the Brexit vote, many property funds were forced to suspend...
It’s August. Airports around the world would typically be bustling with passengers heading off on holiday. But this year it’s different. The pandemic has caused a level of disruption in the aviation industry never before seen in peace time and, with...
After my old banger finally bit the dust last week, we spent Saturday car shopping, and I have to...
Greater inclusiveness, enhanced productivity, improved living standards and a drive towards the...
Once the mainstay of most equity income portfolios, banks have had a torrid time over the past 10...
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced that Harry Nimmo will become co-manager of the ASI Global Smaller Companies fund, working alongside recently appointed co-manager, Kirsty Desson. The change follows the departure of Alan Rowsell, who...
T. Rowe Price has today announced that Dean Tenerelli, manager of the T. Rowe Price Continental...
The co-managers of Kames Global Sustainable Equity fund, Craig Bonthron and Neil Goddin, have left...
Following its latest meeting, the FundCalibre investment committee has made a number of changes to...
Monday, the 8th June, marks World Oceans Day. Oceans are vital to us as human beings: they are responsible for most of the oxygen we breathe and for regulating climate and weather patterns. Despite these facts, humankind has had a large negative...
Globally, 56%* of power generated is wasted. In the UK alone, 16%* of domestic household electricity...
It’s no secret I favour responsible and sustainable investing. But with so much jargon and...
Liontrust Monthly Income Bond doesn’t have the word ‘sustainability’ in its title,...
It’s a sector which is always going to grab a significant amount of attention, but the spotlight is now shining brighter than ever on healthcare, as the search for a vaccine remains the world’s top priority. And, as we head into a recession –...
Just before lockdown, I attended a conference hosted by F&C Investment Trust and had the...
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, we knew that healthcare budgets in many countries were...
Globally, 56%* of power generated is wasted. In the UK alone, 16%* of domestic household electricity...