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We’ve been here before – most recently coming up to a year ago when Boris Johnson bounded into power – only to be left disappointed. But in recent days some respected investment experts are again beginning to make positive noises about the UK stock market.  They believe it could move up sharply in the coming … Read more

Rip-off exit fees for investors switching between investment platforms could be here to stay, after financial regulator ditched proposals to ban them By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 21 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 21 November 2020 Rip-off exit fees for investors switching between investment platforms could be here … Read more

You may not have heard of Tobi Lütke, but that is set to change. The 40-year-old German-Canadian is the founder and boss of Shopify, the world’s second largest ecommerce business. Like Amazon – the world’s largest ecommerce business, valued at $1.58 trillion – Shopify, worth a more modest $112billion, is set to be one of … Read more

How to boost your income during the dividend drought: Payouts from FTSE 100 firms are forecast to fall 24% this year… but there are ways to ease the pain By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 November 2020 What’s Happening? Amongst all the … Read more

Enthusiasm from institutional investors, investment banks and payment companies and continued money printing by central banks means the price of bitcoin is close to its all-time high. The cryptocurrency has seen its price surge 52 per cent since the start of September and currently sits at a three-year high of more than $18,000, or £13,600. … Read more

Nutmeg joins forces with investing giant JPMorgan to offer users ‘smart’ ethical tracker fund range New partnership between robo-adviser Nutmeg and JPM Asset Management The Smart Alpha range will be run by JPMorgan’s multi-asset solutions team and each portfolio will hold between 10 and 14 exchange traded funds Management fees will range between 0.45 per … Read more

ALLIANCE TRUST: Investment vehicle hits its dividend target for 54 YEARS By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 14 November 2020 Despite the severe disruption to dividends caused by coronavirus, investment trust Alliance is on course to deliver its 54th consecutive year of dividend uplift … Read more

It’s not just looks that can be deceptive. In the world of investing there is an array of stock market-listed investment trusts that have names which give little away as to what the managers who run them do all day. The list is exhaustive and includes the likes of Foreign & Colonial – the country’s … Read more