Investment Management & Advice

• A week in advance 8th - 12th September 2008
  
  05 Sep, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week sees the UK corporate calendar remaining relatively quiet, whilst major economic events also prove somewhat sparse. In the US, economic announcements are likely to...

• Education, education, education?
  
  03 Sep, 2008
  By Alexander Davies

  Investment education has featured in the news again recently; the government has announced plans to include personal finance in the GCSE maths curriculum. There are calls for the...

• UK banking sector report
  
  02 Sep, 2008
  By Richard Hunter

  As RBS brought the interim reporting season to a close, investors were left to reflect on a two-week period in which all of the major UK banks provided their half year numbers, most...

• A week in advance 1st - 5th September 2008
  
  29 Aug, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week sees UK corporate results take something of a back seat, whilst economic events come to the fore. In the US, the week is cut short by a national holiday on Monday,...

• Gilt sale now on!
  
  28 Aug, 2008
  By Stephen Lansdown

  Well not quite, but I was fascinated to see in the weekend press the headline that the Government would have to issue a hundred billion pounds worth of Government stock (Gilts) during...

• Commodities - where next?
  
  27 Aug, 2008
  By Meera Patel

  If you looked at the commodities market in isolation for the first half of this year, you wouldn’t have thought that we were heading for a recession. In the last couple of...

• What have you got in the bottom drawer?
  
  25 Aug, 2008
  By Stephen Lansdown

  Over the years, just like any other investor, I have accumulated investments which seemed a good idea at the time, but as the years have gone by I have tended to look at them, make a...

• A week in advance 25th - 29th August 2008
  
  22 Aug, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week sees an upturn in the number of UK corporate second quarter/half year results being announced, whilst the economic calendar lacks a major focus. In the US, the...

• Aiming at a moving target
  
  20 Aug, 2008
  By Danny Cox

  We will have all seen the values of our investments and properties fall in recent months and an advantage, perhaps not one that we wholly enjoy, is that our inheritance tax...

• A week in advance 18th - 22nd August 2008
  
  15 Aug, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week sees an upturn in the number of UK corporate second quarter/half year results, whilst the economic calendar lacks a major focus. In the US, the second quarter...

• Holding our Interest
  
  13 Aug, 2008
  By Alexander Davies

  Last Thursday the Bank of England voted to keep the interest rate at 5% for the fourth consecutive month; despite pleas from many to control inflation by raising rates. Many people...

• Gold still a bold investment?
  
  12 Aug, 2008
  By Meera Patel

  Over the last five years we have seen the gold price surge from around $350 an ounce to a peak of over $1000 in March this year. Since then the gold price has been unusually volatile....

• Quote: me happy
  
  11 Aug, 2008
  By Danny Cox

  Norwich Union, sorry Aviva, have announced that they are going to distribute £1bn to around 1m with profits policyholders. This is a reattribution process meaning that...

• A week in advance 11th - 15th August 2008
  
  08 Aug, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week in both the UK and the US, corporate second quarter results are winding down and the economic focus is moving towards inflation matters. Economics In the UK, the...

• The Olympic effect on China
  
  08 Aug, 2008
  By Ben Yearsley

  With the eagerly awaited Beijing Olympic Games now upon us, a key question for investors is whether there will be an economic impact on the Chinese economy. Some of the initial...

• When is 10% not 10%?
  
  07 Aug, 2008
  By Ben Yearsley

  I might be stating the blindingly obvious here but a 10% rise in either house prices or the stock market and a 10% fall in either is not necessarily the same thing. If you buy a...

• Money guidance
  
  05 Aug, 2008
  By Tom McPhail

  How easy is it to plan for retirement? The government is continuing to redesign the UK’s pension system, with yet another Pensions Bill currently on its way through parliament...

• Climate Change
  
  04 Aug, 2008
  By Alexander Davies

  The climate change debate continues to rage. Opinion seems divided on whether it exists, and if it does, on how it can best be tackled. I am not a scientist and I cannot tell you if...

• A week in advance 4th - 8th August 2008
  
  01 Aug, 2008
  By Keith Bowman

  This coming week sees a continuation of the UK corporate second quarter/half year results season, whilst the economic calendar sees attention turn back to interest rate policy. Over...

• Russia
  
  31 Jul, 2008
  By Mark Dampier

  Recent falls in the Russian stock market have been put down to problems with Mechel, the steel company, and the continuing fight over TNK-BP. Russia is still an emerging market so...