The second 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. The first, on open-ended funds in the environmental sector, is here. The UK’s energy mix is in the process of transitioning from coal and gas … 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
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
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
MR MONEY MAKER: It’s not about timing the market… not being invested is the worst error of all By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 What a year: 2020 has been frightening, painful and, for many, desperately sad. So invest in … 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