This Friday is “Black Friday” and, while the UK is still in lockdown 2.0 and many high street shops are closed, online retail is well and truly open, enticing consumers with bargains galore. With little else to do in the evening or over the weekend,...
With the ban on sales of new diesel and petrol cars having been brought forward...
Following FundCalibre’s Autumn investment committee, a total of ten funds have...
Global stock markets bounced yesterday on the news that the first set of results...
In the six months since the global pandemic forced the UK government to shut down the economy, around 445 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange have cancelled, cut or suspended dividend payments*. Large or small, there has been no place to...
Before the early 1990s, experts generally considered 5% to be a safe amount for retirees to withdraw...
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...
While all eyes have been on the US stock market and the performance of the big tech companies, Asia and emerging markets have been staging a come-back. In the third quarter of this year (30 June to 30 September) both asset classes outperformed their...
Six months on from the fastest stock market falls in history, much of the recovery story has centred...
Believe it or not, it’s now six months since investors experienced the fastest plunge into a bear...
In the four years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, European equities have outshone...
Not so long ago, the West was ‘beating a path to China’s door’ seeking to ride on its coat-tails, as its economy underwent rapid expansion. But over the past couple of years, tensions have escalated. Donald Trump has been confronting the country via...
It is often said that the Japanese market takes the world’s woes on its shoulders, but in the recent...
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...
“Covid-19 has created a once-in-decade opportunity to pick-up exceptional investment trusts at bargain levels.” That’s the view of Vincent Ropers, co-manager of the TB Wise Multi-Asset Growth fund. “The pandemic’s meteoric impact on economic and...
According to the Investment Association, the proportion of UK retail investor assets in UK equity...
In the six months since the global pandemic forced the UK government to shut down the economy,...
Once the mainstay of most equity income portfolios, banks have had a torrid time over the past 10...
While all eyes have been on the US stock market and the performance of the big tech companies, Asia and emerging markets have been staging a come-back. In the third quarter of this year (30 June to 30 September) both asset classes outperformed their...
Four of the five cheapest stock markets in the world today are in emerging markets, according to...
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...
As if 2020 hadn’t thrown enough at us already, the US Presidential election is now in day three and, like the Coronavirus, far from over. Overall turnout is projected to have been the highest in 120 years at 66.9%*, so there are a lot of ballot...
Tuesday night was the first US Presidential Debate and it was…well, let’s just say if you were...
Having recently become the longest serving Prime Minister in Japan, Abe Shinzo announced that he...
This week’s mini-Budget from Chancellor Rishi Sunak was all about the government’s ‘Plan for Jobs’....
As open-ended property funds are given the green light to reopen, we take a look at what caused the suspension of trading and discuss whether the property sector is still worth investing in. Why were funds suspended? While property fund suspensions...
Matt Jarvis from Legal & General tells us why you should still invest in property [0:20] and...
The UK housing market began its lockdown easing last month, with people in England once again...
With interest rates stuck at record lows and dividends under pressure, the search for investment...
This Friday is “Black Friday” and, while the UK is still in lockdown 2.0 and many high street shops are closed, online retail is well and truly open, enticing consumers with bargains galore. With little else to do in the evening or over the weekend,...
With the ban on sales of new diesel and petrol cars having been brought forward to 2030 in the UK,...
Global stock markets bounced yesterday on the news that the first set of results from Pfizer’s phase...
2020 has been a year full of surprises and the world has changed rapidly in ways that we couldn’t...
Following FundCalibre’s Autumn investment committee, a total of ten funds have gained an Elite Rating and three funds have been awarded the Elite Radar badge. One fund has lost its rating following a manager change, while two more have moved between...
As part of a wider corporate brand change for First State Investments, a number of Elite Rated funds...
Following FundCalibre’s summer investment committee, a total of eleven funds gained an Elite Rating...
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced that Harry Nimmo will become co-manager of the ASI...
In preparation for Good Money Week, I was talking to my husband at dinner about what I wanted to focus on. I listed a range of topics: climate change, human rights, plastic use, our endeavour to eat less meat, saving our oceans and, finally,...
When it comes to responsible investing, the past couple of years have been dominated by the...
This week is Good Money Week. Now in its 15th year, it was started to raise awareness of...
David Attenborough’s new film, A Life on our Planet, came to Netflix last weekend after showing...
October is Cyber Security Awareness month and, let’s face it, most of us could do with tightening up on our online practices. Rather scarily, it’s estimated that 100 ransomware attacks are taking place every 20 minutes. The attacks are becoming more...
In the 1960s, some 4% of US Federal budget was spent on space exploration, and when Apollo 11 landed...
The price of Gold topped $2,000 an ounce for the first time this month. Faced with a falling US...
It’s a sector which is always going to grab a significant amount of attention, but the spotlight is...