Managing your investments

While the concept of ‘star managers’ may have lost some momentum in recent years, there are still plenty of funds that have key person risk....

The second quarter of this year saw the majority of markets rise across the globe, but how did different markets perform and how did the...

The UK stock market barely moved the last time the country switched from a Conservative to Labour government but the opposite happened when Keir Starmer’s...

Markets were already braced for a Labour win, hence why the pound and gilt yields barely moved on the election result.

Financial markets usually give...

With a stonking Parliamentary majority, new prime minister Keir Starmer has a serious mandate to pursue the reforms set out in Labour’s manifesto. The party...

The Labour manifesto was fairly light on policy announcements or tax giveaways, instead laying out broad plans for the future and a few key changes...

There are five clear trends to explain the big movements on the UK and US stock market in the first half of the year. They...

More companies are investing spare cash in the hope of building their wealth to support future business growth. In the same way that individuals might...

A blockbuster merger has been announced of two of the biggest and oldest names in the investment trust world – Alliance Trust and Witan.

The...

With the main political parties having set out their position on a range of tax, pensions and savings issues ahead of the General Election on...