A long-term fund wouldn’t prevent another Woodford scandal – it completely misses the point July 4, 2019 Last week, Mark Carney said Woodford-style funds are “built on a lie”
Funding Circle woes are a warning sign for the peer-to-peer lending sector July 3, 2019 Adair Turner once said that peer-to-peer lending "will make the worst bankers look like lending geniuses"
Up in smoke: Is it time to stub out your exposure to tobacco stocks? June 25, 2019 “Blow in her face and she’ll follow you anywhere.” That was how one advert tried to sell cigarettes back in the 1960s. More than half a century later, the glamorous, seductive veneer of the cigarette industry has gone up in smoke. Gone is the attractive packaging, which has been replaced by ugly images of tarred [...]
Obscure fees could be eroding your pension – here’s what you should be paying June 19, 2019 If you’ve ever endeavoured to compare fees charged by pension providers, you’re probably sat wild-eyed, rocking yourself back and forth. Despite the push to rid the financial sector of opaque and confusing charging structures, it’s still incredibly difficult for consumers to compare the fees levied by pension providers. Not only can it be difficult to [...]
Which stocks are in the dividend danger-zone? June 18, 2019 Dividends are one of the perks of the stock markets. While investors can opt to take dividends as cash, reinvesting them can have a powerful impact on your portfolio. According to analysis from Fidelity, if you’d invested £100 a month in the FTSE All Share index over the past 30 years and reinvested all of [...]
The potential consequences of the Tenant Fee Ban June 13, 2019 Welcome to a new era, where unscrupulous letting agents are no longer allowed to demand that tenants pay hundreds of pounds in unjustified fees. The new law has been several years in the making, but at the start of this month, it finally became illegal for letting companies in England to charge tenants rip-off fees. [...]
Opening the fund-gate: How to prevent the Woodford saga from happening again June 12, 2019 The UK’s most famous fund manager has been having a terrible time recently – or perhaps infamous is a better way to describe Neil Woodford these days. Trading in Woodford’s £3.7bn Equity Income fund was suspended last week after a stampede of investors rushed to get their money back. Those remaining are now stuck, and [...]
What’s gone so wrong for Neil Woodford? June 5, 2019 In the not-so-distant past, Neil Woodford was a bit of hero, beaming among the failed fund managers who had blindly bought into the tech boom of 2000. But sometimes stars fall. Or in Woodford’s case, they implode. News that Britain’s most famous fund manager has blocked withdrawals from his flagship fund may have left us stunned, but it’s [...]