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Are ISA investors more adventurous than SIPP investors?
Thursday 03 Apr 2025On paper, you might think ISA investors are likely to be more risk-tolerant than SIPP investors. After all, if you own a SIPP you are actually managing your own pension so surely you aren’t going to take big risks with your financial future? On the other hand, ISAs are a good way to shelter capital...
Balancing growth & income in retirement
Thursday 03 Apr 2025Final salary workplace pensions are slowly becoming a thing of the past, according to figures from the PPF (Pension Protection Fund) and the Pension Regulator, with only 1,013 of the UK’s 6,400 schemes still open to employees. As a result, more people are having to provide for themselves in the run...
Emerging markets: China plays catch-up and Indian consumer stocks rebound
Thursday 27 Mar 20251. China plays catch-up: Chinese startup DeepSeek has sparked a wave of renewed optimism for domestic technology stocks. China’s progress toward technological self-reliance comes even as the country is denied access to advanced chips. Share prices of Chinese internet companies reacted positively to...
Discover more about the big listed Indian consumer names
Thursday 27 Mar 2025Despite a recent retrenchment Indian consumer stocks have still outpaced a buoyant wider domestic stock market over the medium term, supported by an emergent middle class in the country. On a three-year view the MSCI India Consumer Discretionary index has delivered an annualised return of 16.3%...
Forever stocks for your ISA
Thursday 27 Mar 2025The benefits of a stocks and shares ISA are best measured over the long term. Investors should look to get rich slowly through the power of compounding. Compounding describes the process whereby investment returns themselves generate future gains. The value of an investment can increase...
Small World: A look at recent goings-on in the UK small-cap market
Thursday 27 Mar 2025We start this month’s round-up with news of not just one but three new faces, all of which joined the market recently. First up is One Health Group (OHGR:AIM) , a provider of NHS-funded medical procedures, which raised £7.8 million before listing costs through a placing of shares at 180p to fund...
Can Boohoo’s reboot save the company’s fast-fashion business?
Thursday 20 Mar 2025They say if you want something doing, ask a busy person, and few people have been busier over the past four months than Dan Finley, head of Manchester-based online fashion firm Boohoo (BOO:AIM) . Since taking over as chief executive at the start of November, Finley has fought off a rearguard action...
Why stock splits can give shares a boost and who might be next
Thursday 20 Mar 2025If you have ever wondered why some companies split their shares into smaller chunks, this article is for you. In essence share splits do not make any meaningful difference to the fundamentals of a company. It is the equivalent of cutting the same pizza into more pieces. This is why there is some...
Top funds to fill your ISA: Our best ideas as the tax year end approaches
Thursday 20 Mar 2025The end of the tax year is now just a couple of weeks away so if you want to make use of any remaining ISA allowance your window to do so is rapidly closing. In this article the Shares team has put its collective heads together to identify a quintet of funds which we think are worthy of inclusion...
Buy now, pay later firm Klarna files for IPO despite volatility
Thursday 20 Mar 2025Buy now, pay later company Klarna has filed its long-awaited IPO (initial public offering), with a $15 billion valuation mooted, according to reports. The Swedish fintech is believed to be aiming to price the New York Stock Exchange IPO in early April and is hoping to raise around $1 billion of...