Mar 22, 2021 | Newsletter
The flood of retail investors piling into markets like the Redditors behind the Gamestop mania has been described as a “harbinger of over-exuberant markets” and evidence of potential equity bubbles brewing. Down on its luck video game retailer Gamestop took the...
Mar 20, 2021 | Newsletter
RioTinto will hand investors the largest dividend in its 148-year history as it cashes in on a mining bonanza. The company will pay out £6.5 billion, equal to 400p per share, after a surge in the price of steelmaking ingredient iron ore boosted profits by more than a...
Mar 18, 2021 | Newsletter
The number of funds that have consistently underperformed in the markets they invest in this year has risen by a third, new data has shown. This is partly due to the gulf between the performance of growth versus value and income funds, which has been exacerbated by...
Mar 16, 2021 | Newsletter
The government is under mounting pressure to plug gaps in its emergency coronavirus wage subsidy schemes at the March budget to support millions of self-employed people and other workers excluded from furlough. MPs and campaign groups said the chancellor, Rishi Sunak,...
Mar 14, 2021 | Newsletter
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will set out plans to boost the UK economy in his Budget next month. This could mean tax rises as the government looks to balance the books after borrowing a record £284.7 billion following the coronavirus crisis. For this Budget, there has been...
Mar 12, 2021 | Newsletter
Hundreds of thousands of savers face a retirement income lottery as providers are poised to put their pension pots into a hotchpotch of ‘one-size-fits-all’ investment funds. From now, over-55s who dip into their pension for the first time without getting...
