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MR MONEY MAKER: Airline shares are prepared for take-off in 2021, let’s hope there’s clear skies ahead, says JUSTIN URQUHART STEWART By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 18 December 2020 What’s Happening? Locked down, fed up and thoroughly brassed off. Not exactly the … Read more
Over the weekend millions will push a laden trolley along the Covid-compliant one-way system of a supermarket, stocking up for Christmas and against possible Brexit shortages. Determined to celebrate despite the odds, the British are forecast to spend £12billion in supermarkets this month, £1.5billion more than last year, says retail consultancy Kantar. A record amount … Read more
From ignoring stock tips you hear down the pub, to shutting out political noise, Money Mail has drawn on experts’ experience to pro-vide invaluable pointers… Do your homework Peter Hargreaves, Hargreaves Lansdown and Blue Whale Capital co-founder Watch what your investments are doing and keep up with what is happening in the economy, and what … Read more
The second in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. The first, on open-ended funds in the environmental sector, is here. The UK’s energy mix is in the process of transitioning from coal and gas … Read more
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3, that catchy hit by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, became a key theme song for the troubled early 1980s. Now, experts are adopting its sentiments for the rest of this decade, predicting that we are set for a sequel to Roaring Twenties, despite the economic crisis of 2020. The … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Investors shouldn’t shun the EU after Brexit, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 What’s Happening? Markets and investors love to focus on exciting successes. This year we have certainly had enough excitement, and … Read more
The first in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that many companies in the green energy and infrastructure sectors will thrive in the coming years. … Read more
AJ Bell investors see charges rise as Sipp exit fees are scrapped: Platform overhauls customer costs as it posts a pandemic-fuelled bump in profit Investing platform has announced a run of changes to its fees and charges This includes the removal of Sipp exit fees and pension drawdown charges Cap on custody charges for shares … Read more
The nation has saved more than ever this year, yet interest rates have never been so low. New Bank of England figures show a staggering amount of money – £215 billion – is now sitting in current accounts paying no interest at all. There is also around £844 billion languishing in easy-access savings accounts paying … Read more
Investing ‘squirrels’ will have made the most gains in their portfolios this year, according to new research from Quilter. In a year that has rocked markets, alarming investor behaviours have also emerged, including panic-selling and trying to second-guess the market. Others meanwhile, have held their nerve and drip fed money into their portfolios month by … Read more