Four investment bargains for Black Friday
This Friday is “Black Friday” and, while the UK is still in lockdown 2.0 and many high street shops...
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Was yesterday’s vaccine bounce the start of a Santa rally for value stocks?
Global stock markets bounced yesterday on the news that the first set of results from Pfizer’s phase...
Investment opportunities in Western markets and specialist sectors
With so much going on in the world and different sectors and geographies performing differently,...
Finding exceptional investment trusts without the price tag
“Covid-19 has created a once-in-decade opportunity to pick-up exceptional investment trusts at...
UK equity exodus: investors shun the FTSE
According to the Investment Association, the proportion of UK retail investor assets in UK equity...
94. Why Brexit planning has helped UK firms deal with lockdown
Alex Wright, manager of Fidelity Special Values investment trust, says the disruptions in supply chains that investors have been worrying about if a hard Brexit comes to pass are not that dissimilar to those we've seen because of COVID. “A lot of UK companies have done reasonably well dealing with the logistics of the pandemic because they had that...
Three ways to use an investment trust
Investment trusts are a type of fund. They are a way of pooling your money in one place – but at the...
Most popular funds this ISA season
I’m one of some 1,023,706 people who have joined the newly formed Facebook group: Family lockdown...
How to tap into a slow economic recovery?
Despite notching up returns of more than 20%^, last year was anything but smooth sailing for global...
Five funds for 2020
After the dramatic stock market falls during the last few months of 2018, global markets were...
37. The 12 year-old asking for an investment
Having badgered his parents for an investment in Foreign and Colonial investment trust at the age of 12, it’s perhaps no wonder that Alex Wright became a fund manager. Here he talks to us about his own trust, Fidelity Special Values, tells us why he invests in stocks other people don’t like, and debates the merits of banks and Brexit.
What a Tory majority means for your investments
Following the election result overnight, Darius McDermott, managing director of FundCalibre, gives...
Catch up and a cuppa with… Alex Wright
The Fidelity Special Values investment trust launched in 1994 under the management of Anthony...
Back to school: investing in the UK’s third largest shopping event
Going back to school is now the third largest seasonal shopping event in the UK – behind Black...
Avoiding buyer’s remorse: investment bargains that paid off
It’s January, the New Year sales are in full swing and shoppers are out in number. Everyone...