Best performing funds and trusts of 2022 so far
It’s been a rocky start to the year for investors to say the least. The rotation from growth to...
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Banks and miners lead a dividend bonanza
It’s been a difficult few years for income investors. After a decade of record low interest rates,...
Are bumper dividends on the cards?
The coming months could be very lucrative for investors with companies around the world expected to...
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The most popular funds amongst millennials in 2021
Born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, there are approximately 1.8 billion millennials in...
What the National Insurance tax increase could mean for your finances
For those who just see it listed on their pay slip, but are not sure what it is, National Insurance...
Will interest rates ever rise again?
My first ever mortgage was variable, but ‘capped’ at 5.75%. Yes, 5.75%. When I took it out in 1999,...
Inflation: will it stay, or will it go?
Inflation is the buzzword in markets at the moment. Prices have risen 5% year-on-year in the US and...
The investment trusts delivering inflation-beating dividend growth
‘Dividend hero’ investment companies have grown their dividends to shareholders well ahead of...
Whisky: the best performing asset class of the decade
“Whisky is the best performing asset class of the last decade”. That’s a subject title designed to...
The most popular investment themes with millennials
Investment opportunities in Western markets and specialist sectors
With so much going on in the world and different sectors and geographies performing differently,...
97. Why we could be through the worst of the UK dividend cuts
Job Curtis, manager of City of London investment trust, tells us how he dipped into the revenue...
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...
Meet the Elite Rated investment millennials
Millennials have gained a reputation for job-hopping, with a “job for life” becoming a thing of the...
Many happy investment returns
Another year older, another year wiser (so they say), and coincidentally my first year in finance...