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Investment Trust Insider: DIY Investor Safety Manual
Our ezine has everything you need to know about the pros and cons of investment trusts: from charges, discounts, gearing to liquidity.
Leave a commentQ&A: what next for the Co-op?
After posting the worst results in its 150-year history, the embattled Co-op group has some important decisions to make about its future.
1 CommentDiary of a Dumb Investor: I'm Russian for returns
I'm making what could be my most adventurous investment yet, braving the Crimean crisis to buy a Russian investment trust.
9 CommentsBill McQuaker: 3 funds for big company returns
Funds expert Bill McQuaker picks his favourite funds investing in big household names.
Leave a commentSunday Papers: RBS report on treatment of SMEs accused of being partial
And the Financial Conduct Authority is looking to change the listing rules so a majority investor has to get the support of smaller shareholders to take a company private.
Leave a commentNew Model Adviser®: for professional financial planners
FCA bans two advisers over unsuitable Sipp advice
The Financial Conduct Authority has banned two advisers over unsuitable advice which saw them switch clients into Sipps and invest them in unregulated and high risk products such as diamonds and overseas property.
29 CommentsFCA wins Tribunal case to impose £80k fine on broker
The Financial Conduct Authority has won a case allowing it to impose a £80,000 fine on a broker who gave false details for a mortgage application.
Leave a commentTransact plans to offer protection products
Transact is looking at launching a protection product on its platform.
1 CommentNewcastle adviser charged with fraud
Newcastle-based financial adviser Alok Dhanda has been charged with 13 counts of fraud.
Leave a commentCitywire Wealth Manager: for investment professionals
Saturday Papers: BlackRock challenges UK pension providers
And Barclays faces a barrage of shareholder anger over excessive pay following another troubling year for the bank.
Leave a commentPritchard’s £3 million shortfall may widen as fresh claims lodged
Defunct stockbroker Pritchard, which was acquired by WH Ireland in 2012, faces further ‘significant’ client claims which, if agreed, could increase its £3 million cash shortfall.
Leave a commentM&G’s Rhodes sells BlackRock for Aberdeen income opportunity
Citywire + rated Stuart Rhodes is concerned about US valuations and has started to see some compelling opportunities in emerging markets after the sell off.
Leave a commentWhat the UK’s wealthy think of the RDR
A study by Pershing reveals that wealthy clients understand the outcomes of the RDR but view advice as more expensive since the regulation was introduced.
1 CommentCitywire Global: for international fund selectors
California dreaming: pension chief eyes new income plays
SBCERA's Donald Pierce explains how he’s bringing new life to the city’s $7.6bn portfolio at a time when other municipal funds are going bankrupt.
Overnight Markets: S&P 500 and Nasdaq rise on earnings
Shares eked out modest gains as results from General Electric and Morgan Stanley beat estimates.
Time for talk is over, Euro QE is coming, says Reyl CIO
Mario Draghi can only put off action for so long and inflation numbers will lead to action in the next three months, says Francois Savary.
Global investor disillusionment rising, says Legg Mason survey
The 'reality gap' between investors’ yield expectations and actual returns is growing, the US firm's latest survey reveals.