BP: Discipline and efficiency underpin 'buy' case
Profits are down in the first quarter, but BP remains on track, writes our head of markets. BP (LSE:BP.) may not have repeated its immense performance from the full-year numbers in February, but...
View ArticleUS regulator SEC gives go-ahead for first 'negative fee' fund
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US financial regulator, has approved the first ever “negative fee” fund, which will pay investors for depositing their money. New York-based Salt...
View ArticleFour ways passive investing has altered the markets
Ever since the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) listed in Europe 19 years ago, passive investing has proved hugely popular. ETFs are traded like stocks, and simply track the big indices like the FTSE...
View ArticleWhy Domino's Pizza sell-off was overcooked
By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. Hungry bargain hunters gobbled up shares in Domino's, correctly betting than an early slump was unfair. After selling 12 pizzas every second on New Year's...
View ArticleThe big fixer-upper: How to solve the problems in the mortgage market
We've sent people into space, built driverless cars, and engineered robots that can think like us. And yet, fixing the mortgage approval process still seems out of humanity’s reach. The market is...
View ArticleCan a 60/40 split portfolio deliver better outcomes?
Recent decades have been a tumultuous time for investors. In the last 20 years alone we have experienced two of the biggest stock market crashes in history – the bursting of the dotcom bubble at the...
View ArticleRoyal Returns - Interactive Investor on funds and trusts fit for children
By Jemma Jackson from interactive investor. Whilst the latest addition to the Royal family won’t want for much, it’s unlikely that any investments made on his behalf will be left to languish in cash....
View ArticleMorrisons fails to convince despite Ocado deal
By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. It talks the talk, and a 6 per cent dividend yield is attractive, but can this £50 billion grocer walk the walk? Morrisons (LSE:MRW) offered more evidence of...
View ArticleWhy is the mortgage market strangely resistant to technological change?
Technology is so pervasive that it is easy to forget just how fundamentally it has impacted our lives. In fact, it is hard to think of an area of life that hasn’t been made more accessible, faster or...
View ArticleEven ITV's big dividend can't win over investors
After falling again sharply on these first-quarter results, interactive investor's head of markets explains why ITV is finding life so hard. Strategically, the song remains the same at ITV (LSE:ITV) as...
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