Retiring workers could be forced to shop around for annuities amid warnings that they could lose more than half their income if they don’t get the best deal. Under current rules, pension companies must alert retiring workers that they can shop around for an annuity – which is used to convert a pension pot into [...]
Tired of considering the same old investments? We look at some of the more unconventional choices. Investors who are fed up with dismal returns from traditional markets are making steps to invest in more adventurous areas. Popular funds include those that invest in Latin America, Russia, India, gold and commodities. Rebecca O’Keeffe, at Interactive Investor, [...]
Analysts welcomed the news of Tony Hayward’s departure – but are concerned about the company shrinking and its future dividend strategy. Kim Fustier, Oil analyst, Credit Suisse: We see good long-term value in BP’s shares and believe it is possible to build an upside case scenario for BP. However, after the rebound of the last [...]
Metro Bank, which aims to make banking a “fun retail experience” opens in Holborn, central London today. The bank is Britain’s first new high street lender for more than a century and it has pledged to return to “core banking values”. The bank said it will employ more cashiers than the existing “big four” banks, [...]
International Monetary Fund has warned China to be vigilant over bad loans as its economy begins to slow. The IMF warned today that China faces a bad debt problem despite the recovery in its economic growth rates. In a statement about its first public review of the Chinese economy for three years, the IMF praised [...]
Actively managed funds sometimes beat their competitors that simply track the market. But are they really worth the extra cost? Ruth Emery investigates The age-old investment debate of active versus passive has recently had its cobwebs blown away by some interesting developments. It has always seemed to be a ‘them and us’ industry: the passive [...]
Source One International” believes that market misgivings about sovereign debt issuance are there for good reason. “Source One International” strategists say that the current, widely held concerns about the levels of debt being accumulated by several developed nations are entirely justified and that investors should take contrarian commentary suggesting there are few signs of a [...]
Loonie reaches parity for first time since 2008, but dips to 99.88 cents U.S. OTTAWA — With the Canadian dollar riding oil prices to parity with the U.S. dollar, many Ottawa consumers and businesses were looking to cash in Tuesday. Mohinder Singh, a technology executive at RBR Ltd., was waiting in line at a currency [...]
A former taxi driver who reinvented himself as an investment guru was yesterday found guilty of conning investors out of millions of pounds in a Madoff-style “Ponzi” scheme. Kevin Foster, 51, was convicted on 14 counts of theft and deception following a seven-week trial at Harrow Crown Court, and now faces a maximum of seven [...]
Faith Glasgow finds an old favourite is back in vogue as capital values settle at more sustainable levels, but does the property rebound have further to go? Traditional investment wisdom has long viewed commercial property as a key element of a well-diversified portfolio – much less volatile than equities, largely unaffected by the ups and [...]
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