You probably don’t want a structured product
Structured investment products, a perennial favourite of the banks, are in the spotlight again after the FSA fined Santander for...
Market numbers: Friday 17th February 2012
Feb 18, 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,905.07, up 19.69 points or +0.33% on...
Avoiding a double-dip recession
Feb 13, 2012
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) believes that the UK will avoid a double-dip recession this year, with modest GDP...
What is risk?
Feb 13, 2012
Risk, what a lovely word that is? I am being a little sarcastic; risk to most people is not a...
Market numbers: Friday 10th February 2012
Feb 11, 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,852.39, down 43.08 points or -0.73% on...
How to cut ISA charges
Feb 7, 2012
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was quoted in the Sunday Times this weekend, in an article about cutting...
Market numbers: Friday 3rd February 2012
Feb 4, 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,901.07, up 105.00 points or +1.81% on...
Time to get out of gilts?
Jan 30, 2012
A report in Investment Week today suggests that some fund managers are ‘shorting’ gilts in expectation of an extreme correction....
Remember the dot-com bubble
Jan 30, 2012
How can a company with estimated profits of $335m to $1bn possibly attract a market valuation of $100bn? That is...
Market numbers: Friday 27th January 2012
Jan 28, 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,733.45, down 61.75 points or -1.07% on...
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