Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3, that catchy hit by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, became a key theme song for the troubled early 1980s. Now, experts are adopting its sentiments for the rest of this decade, predicting that we are set for a sequel to Roaring Twenties, despite the economic crisis of 2020. The … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Investors shouldn’t shun the EU after Brexit, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 What’s Happening? Markets and investors love to focus on exciting successes. This year we have certainly had enough excitement, and … Read more
The first in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that many companies in the green energy and infrastructure sectors will thrive in the coming years. … Read more
AJ Bell investors see charges rise as Sipp exit fees are scrapped: Platform overhauls customer costs as it posts a pandemic-fuelled bump in profit Investing platform has announced a run of changes to its fees and charges This includes the removal of Sipp exit fees and pension drawdown charges Cap on custody charges for shares … Read more
The nation has saved more than ever this year, yet interest rates have never been so low. New Bank of England figures show a staggering amount of money – £215 billion – is now sitting in current accounts paying no interest at all. There is also around £844 billion languishing in easy-access savings accounts paying … Read more
Investing ‘squirrels’ will have made the most gains in their portfolios this year, according to new research from Quilter. In a year that has rocked markets, alarming investor behaviours have also emerged, including panic-selling and trying to second-guess the market. Others meanwhile, have held their nerve and drip fed money into their portfolios month by … Read more
This is an introduction to a series of articles to be published in the following weeks and months that will investigate niche sectors and future-orientated themes as opportunities for investors – and the vehicles that allow access to them. Trying to predict the future is for some the very essence of investing. Many thorough-minded investors … Read more
From the Covid crash in February to this month’s vaccine breakthrough, investors have had quite the ride on the markets this year. But what can a novice investor learn from 2020? Though the markets have seen record falls – and some dramatic gains – a look at the whole year underlines the wisdom of cautious … Read more
Saving is in crisis. Interest rates are now at a record low and show no sign of improving any time soon. All major High Street banks are refusing to pay us more than 0.01 per cent on our savings in easy-access accounts. And yesterday, 25 million of the nation’s savers were clobbered yet again with … Read more
10 golden rules for rookie investors: The PRUDENT INVESTOR has seen it all over three decades of stock market ups and downs… here’s his top tips UK shares have halved twice since turn of the century – but each time recovered Most investors hold too much money in the UK and too little in the … Read more