Political upheaval around the world is driving up interest in gold. In the UK, savers wasted no time in buying after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month announced a general election for July 4. Figures from the Royal Mint showed that the volume of gold purchases doubled in the week following the announcement. But should
Renewable infrastructure trusts might have suffered of late, but that means some are offering bumper double-digit dividend yields. Is this an opportunity and could the future still be looking bright over the long term? In this column, William Heathcoat Amory, managing partner at Kepler Partners, says renewable infrastructure trusts could be a bargain if you know
David Belle is a trader and the founder of Fink Money and believes that investors need to rethink the traditional five-year time horizon. When it comes to investing, financial advisers often recommend a minimum time frame of five years. This conventional investment wisdom is based on the idea that longer-term investments tend to deliver higher
One of the attractions of saving in a stocks and shares Isa is the flexibility. The tax advantages of a pension may be better, but all depends on the tax rate you pay now versus in retirement, and who knows what that will be? Given the fiscal drag from successive chancellors refusing to raise the
US stock market dominance over the UK, and pretty much everywhere else, has sliced potential returns off my pension savings in the past few years. That is because I have been leaning toward British funds and shares in recent years. However, recent market mayhem has levelled things off a little. Consider that the FTSE 100