Investing in financials has long divided opinion. Traditional financial stocks – such as banks – have been out of favour for over 10 years now. They were hit hard last year for a number of reasons including thinner margins on lending and the...
I’m sure most people have heard of middle child syndrome – some have no doubt...
The challenges faced during the Covid pandemic underlined the importance of...
After suffering less from the pandemic than many other major developed markets...
Investing in financials has long divided opinion. Traditional financial stocks – such as banks – have been out of favour for over 10 years now. They were hit hard last year for a number of reasons including thinner margins on lending and the...
Bumper dividends could be on the way, but investors should beware broken promises, according to a...
‘Dividend hero’ investment companies have grown their dividends to shareholders well ahead of...
As the UK starts to emerge from lockdown, pent-up demand from stir-crazy British consumers looks set...
When I was twenty, I was living in Genoa, Italy. I was on a work placement from university, having the time of my life. I was also a millionaire – mainly thanks to the fact that £1 was worth 2,500 Lira in those days, so my monthly wage of £400...
In the chaotic sell-off of the global pandemic, and subsequent rebound, active managers outperformed...
On 20th February 2020, the fastest bear market in history began and, in just 20 days the global...
Baillie Gifford knocks Morgan Stanley off the top spot Having been there or thereabouts for the past...
I’m sure most people have heard of middle child syndrome – some have no doubt experienced it themselves. The theory is that the oldest child tends to be more reliable and conscientious – possibly because parents go by the book with their first baby....
After suffering less from the pandemic than many other major developed markets in 2020, Japan has...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average celebrated its 125th birthday in May 2021. Created as a simple...
2021 has been a bit of a mixed bag so far for investments. In equity markets, the US has once again...
Morrisons made the headlines last week – not for queues of people buying toilet rolls, but because a US private equity firm made an offer to buy the supermarket group for £5.5bn. The share price consequently surged some 28%, giving a welcome boost to...
After a 12-month delay, Euro 2020 will finally kick off this evening when Italy and Turkey meet in...
What an exciting few days we’ve had in the Slator household: play dates in the garden, haircuts all...
Today marks my 51st week of working from home. When I left the office with a few files and some...
Investing in financials has long divided opinion. Traditional financial stocks – such as banks – have been out of favour for over 10 years now. They were hit hard last year for a number of reasons including thinner margins on lending and the...
Over the past few months, markets around the world have witnessed value stocks outperform growth...
The Chinese Year of the Rat draws to a close on 12 February 2021. And what a year it turned out to...
In 2020, emerging market bond funds posted modest returns of around 3% on average*. Not a bad return...
Joe Biden marked his first 100 days as president this week – 100 days of “rescue and renewal”, according to his Twitter account. And in those 100 days he has enjoyed a number of successes: the US now has more people vaccinated than any other country,...
On 20 January 2021, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. One...
As if 2020 hadn’t thrown enough at us already, the US Presidential election is now in day three and,...
Tuesday night was the first US Presidential Debate and it was…well, let’s just say if you were...
Last week, LinkedIn was all a buzz about whether the government was considering creating a legal right to work from home (WFH). Ultimately, should employers be made to prove having staff in the office is essential? As someone who has worked from home...
Lockdown restrictions started to lift this week and I, for one, can’t wait for some social...
As open-ended property funds are given the green light to reopen, we take a look at what caused the...
Matt Jarvis from Legal & General tells us why you should still invest in property [0:20] and...
Inflation is the buzzword in markets at the moment. Prices have risen 5% year-on-year in the US and 2% here in the UK as economies have reopened. The question on everyone’s lips is, after years of very low inflation and interest rates will this be a...
With travel to Europe this summer looking unlikely for many, we decided to bring Europe to our...
The FTSE 100 will have a reshuffle over the weekend, as its quarterly review sees Renishaw relegated...
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates...
The managers of Elite Rated Marlborough Special Situations fund are to be given greater freedom to hold mid-cap and large-cap companies. From the start of August 2021 co-managers Eustace Santa Barbara and Guy Feld will have more freedom to ‘run their...
Following FundCalibre’s Spring investment committee, two new funds have gained an Elite Rating and...
Having been named Fund Research Firm of the Year in the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards in...
FundCalibre has been named Fund Research Firm of the Year in the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards...
World Oceans Day is held on the 8 June each year. Designated by the UN General Assembly in 2008, it’s a day to celebrate our personal connection to the sea, as well as to raise awareness about the crucial role the ocean plays in our lives and the...
When it comes to ESG investing, much of the focus until now has been on the E and the G – the...
Last week, life in the UK started to get back to normal: pubs, shops and hairdressers reopened after...
Just before Christmas, Denmark announced it would end all its offshore gas and oil activities by...
The challenges faced during the Covid pandemic underlined the importance of investment diversification – particularly for income investors. Dividends were cut or cancelled, bond yields were already low and interest rates on cash almost non-existent....
Insurance is a funny thing. It’s the only product that both buyer and seller hope is never used. But...
When it comes to our investments, most of us start off with a ‘core’ – the assets or funds at...
Commodities enjoyed a super-cycle during the first decade of the 21st century. Huge demand from...
‘Dividend hero’ investment companies have grown their dividends to shareholders well ahead of inflation over the past five years, according to new data from the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). The AIC dividend heroes are investment...
“Covid-19 has created a once-in-decade opportunity to pick-up exceptional investment trusts at...
Investment trusts are a type of fund. They are a way of pooling your money in one place – but at the...
By Nick Britton, Head of Intermediary Communications, AIC When the average investment trust has lost...