24 Feb 2021
Financials sector recovery advice is not to leave it too late to invest
Financials remains one of the cheapest equity market sectors. They jumped sharply in price following the positive news around the …
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23 Feb 2021
Investment in property loans a diversification option for HNW investors
We are living in very unpredictable times with Brexit and Covid-19 at the heart of the volatility. The pound has …
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26 Mar 2020
Polar Capital Global Financials Trust offers unique market access
While investor focus is currently on what governments and the medical authorities are doing to combat Covid 19 the banking …
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20 Feb 2021
Spot the Dog report highlights poor performing funds
Consistently poor performing funds worth £49.6 bn have been highlighted in a report which ‘names and shames’ 119 stock-market investment …
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24 Feb 2021
Financials sector recovery advice is not to leave it too late to invest
Financials remains one of the cheapest equity market sectors. They jumped sharply in price following the positive news around the …
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23 Feb 2021
Investment in property loans a diversification option for HNW investors
We are living in very unpredictable times with Brexit and Covid-19 at the heart of the volatility. The pound has …
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23 Feb 2021
Old world or new world investing and which approach to go for
Consider two investors who are offered two different companies to invest in. Company A is a bank that has been …
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20 Feb 2021
Spot the Dog report highlights poor performing funds
Consistently poor performing funds worth £49.6 bn have been highlighted in a report which ‘names and shames’ 119 stock-market investment …
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19 Feb 2021
Woodford starts up again with new fund management business
The UK’s most high profile fund manager Neil Woodford, who closed his investment company after the two funds which bore …
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17 Feb 2021
Good businesses globally are offering attractive valuations
Investment headlines out of Japan over the last few weeks have provided a great illustration of what is going on …
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16 Feb 2021
Steady wealth building and the tortoise and the hare lesson
Some wildly speculative froth in one corner of the market caught the news last week and opened a window onto …
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13 Feb 2021
The GameStop crash and hedge trading pitfalls explained
A year ago, on Sunday I stayed in on Valentine’s Day with a runny nose and the PlayStation. Little did …
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12 Feb 2021
China investment best through global EM or Asian funds
Friday 12 February is Chinese New Year. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2021 will be the Year of the …
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11 Feb 2021
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies outperforms with gaming stock
Launched in August 1993, Standard Life UK Smaller Companies is quoted on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
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10 Feb 2021
The coronavirus crash one year on and how it has impacted markets
There is an old saying that “time flies when you’re having fun” but I’m not at all convinced that is …
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10 Feb 2021
The Scottish Investment Trust pays out on dividends
The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN) employs a global contrarian investment approach. Manager Alasdair McKinnon and his five-person investment …
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9 Feb 2021
Murray Income Trust demonstrates that income investing can still work
Murray Income Trust (MUT) was founded in Scotland in 1923 and has been part of the Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM, …
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9 Feb 2021
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust report for Q4 2020
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust (BRGE) was launched in September 2004 and is listed on the Main Market of …
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8 Feb 2021
Investing in a changing world
Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are …
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8 Feb 2021
Investing in green transport needs to be happening now
“Necessity is the mother of invention” which the Cambridge Dictionary states is "an expression that means that if you really …
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4 Feb 2021
Is UK debt okay? Many believe it is mankind's great invention
In a recent op-ed, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath noted that: “For the first time, in 60% of the global …
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3 Feb 2021
UK recovery is possible with planned investment in businesses
As the UK covid-19 situation gets ever more parlous, it somehow feels counter intuitive to turn our minds to how …
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2 Feb 2021
ESG opportunities at forefront of a wave of new launches
There has been a flurry of investment products recently with a sustainable or ESG focus. Four featured here comprise three …