Investment Articles

Banks continue to make the headlines and not necessarily for the right reasons. Lloyds may have pleased investors by reinitiating dividends after a gap stretching...

While the FTSE 100's advance toward and then beyond its 1999 all-time high of 6,930 continues to attract headlines, another famous benchmark is making a...

While the majority of clients and advisers may have little time for dealing with the intricacies of stock-specific research the dividend cut announced by FTSE...

Picking the right asset class, individual geographic market and the right funds or stocks to play that choice is not just about finding the best...

The latest figures from independent consultant ETFGI which show cash barrelling into fixed income Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) serve to confirm the scramble for income remains...

As oil and equity prices flip flop around, the logical conclusion is markets are confused as to whether they should be focussing on growth, fretting...

Markets remain fixated by the European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to launch a Quantitative Easing (QE) programme last Thursday (22 January) and the results of...

The markets continue to digest the implications of last week's decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to stop interfering in currency markets and let...

There are many different schools of thought when it comes to investing. Some portfolio builders prefer to go with the flow and follow momentum in...

As stocks begin 2015 with a whimper and bond prices rally yet further, markets seem newly preoccupied with the twin threats of a growth shock...

As one year ends, clients and advisers often sit down to review portfolios and see what lessons can be drawn with regard to strategy for...

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's decision to buy back the remaining War Loan is the one policy to emerge from the Autumn Statement (3...

Oil continues to make all the headlines, as the price of a barrel of Brent crude hovers around the $70 mark. That is some 40%...

As the Paddington Bear film hits the nation's cinema screens, Darkest Peru is going to attract a fair bit more attention than usual and from a financial...