Can you afford to be out of the stock market this summer?
By Jemma Jackson from interactive investor. With lots of potential banana skins for financial markets around, we discuss investment tactics for the warmer months ahead. The days when the City was...
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30 years of ‘dollar cost averaging’: what is it and does it work?
The last three decades have shown just how volatile financial markets can be. After the boom of the 1990s came the dotcom crash at the turn of the millennium. This was followed by a mini recovery...
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The art of the deal: Five things we learned from Trump’s tax returns
Hours after one of Donald Trump’s closest White House allies, Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, formally refused the Democrats’ request for the President’s tax returns late on Monday, the cat was out...
View ArticleTrump: Tax returns revelations a 'highly inaccurate fake news hit job'
Donald Trump has hit back at reports that he lost more than $1bn dollars between 1985 and 1994, saying the fact he was a real estate developer gave him leeway with his taxes. Read more: The art of the...
View ArticleFive ways to prepare financially for your first child
It has arrived. And I’m not just talking about the royal baby, but the mania – the 23-page newspaper spreads, the bets on baby names (Archie was definitely not the bookies’ favourite), the frenzy over...
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Stockwatch: When you should buy Amazon and Microsoft
By Edmond Jackson from interactive investor. We've studied the charts, now our companies analyst runs through the fundamentals and gives his view. At a time of questions over durability of growth in US...
View ArticleThe relief of revenue reserves
There is no question that we find ourselves in uncertain times. It is during periods of uncertainty that the investment trust structure has distinct merits. That’s because investment trusts, which are...
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Why bombed-out Sainsbury's leads the FTSE 100
Hammered since the Asda merger was blocked, our head of markets explains the surge to a three-week high. Rather than fight the decision of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Sainsbury...
View ArticleIndia's Hinduja brothers top Rich List for third time
Britain’s 1,000 richest people have again had their respective fortunes stacked against each other to determine the most wealthy person in the country, in the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List. This year it...
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Forget electric cars, the real boom will be in electric vans
Electric vehicles (EVs) have reached a clear inflection point. Product quality has improved and consumer availability is expanding rapidly. Perhaps most importantly, the cost of electric car ownership...
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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...
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Why 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...
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Can 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...
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Royal 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....
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Morrisons 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...
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Even 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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