Investment Articles

A swathe of post-Brexit vote property fund suspensions in June and July frayed the nerves of investors, with some commentators drawing doomsday comparisons with the...

When former Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to allow savers aged 55 and over unfettered access to their pension pot from April 2015, nobody was...

One intriguing trend of note this year is the recovery in the Bloomberg Commodities index, a basket of 22 raw materials, encompassing energy, industrial metals,...

The pension freedoms have reshaped the UK’s retirement landscape and opened up a plethora of retirement planning opportunities and risks. The reforms, introduced in April...

While the Bank of England’s three-pronged monetary package launched on 4 August has been welcomed by equity and bond markets (not to mention many commentators...

We explain the options available when splitting your assets

Divorce is a highly stressful time when emotional pressures are compounded by difficult financial decisions that can...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney last week unveiled a series of “big bazooka” monetary policy stimuli designed to breathe life into the ailing UK...

The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the first time in seven years, jacked up its Quantitative Easing programme to £435 billion, flagged...

The old strategy of “Sell in May” has proved a failure thus far in 2016, as stock and bond markets have both continued to make...

Most of today’s investors have lived through a ‘golden era’ of equity returns that is about to come to a shuddering halt.

So argues an influential...

It took the best part of 14 months but America’s S&P 500 benchmark equity index finally set a new all-time high this month while US...

Equities have already endured some wild swings in the wake of the shock ‘Leave’ vote in the EU referendum and market conditions could remain choppy...

In the past fortnight or so, a number of open-ended commercial property funds available on the AJ Bell Youinvest platform have suspended trading, instituted fair...

When questioned about the implications of the volatility witnessed in stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and even property over the past two weeks, this column continues...