How can I find out if my civil service pension is invested ethically?

Could you please tell me how I find out how my pension is invested. I’m in the civil service pension scheme, and I’m interested how the money is invested, that it is not invested in fossil fuel industries and that it is invested ethically. I could not find any data on this. Could you send … Read more

Tesla would need 1,600 YEARS to earn the money invested in the company on the stock market

Tesla would need 1,600 years to make as much money as has been invested in it on the stock market with its current rate of earnings. The automaker’s founder and CEO Elon Musk, 49, became the richest man in the world for four days last week as share prices spiked yet again, yet Tesla delivered … Read more

MR MONEY MAKER: It’s not about timing the market… not being invested is the worst error of all

MR MONEY MAKER: It’s not about timing the market… not being invested is the worst error of all By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 What a year: 2020 has been frightening, painful and, for many, desperately sad. So invest in … Read more

New tool shows what your shares in major companies would be worth if you invested at the start

Netflix, Asos and Microsoft are just three companies whose share prices have soared since they floated and now you can find out how other global brands have fared. eToro has launched an ‘Investment Time Machine’ to show savers what could be sitting in their pot today had they invested in some of the world’ biggest … Read more

How did it take three months to get back the £50,000 I had invested in Premium Bonds?

One of the major attractions of owning Premium Bonds – apart from the chance of winning a monthly prize of between £25 and £1million – is that you can get back your money within eight working days.  Or so I thought before recently attempting to withdraw my maximum holding of £50,000. Having to wait a … Read more

Joe Biden claims a black man invested the light bulb, ‘not a white guy named Edison’

Joe Biden on Thursday said that a black man created the light bulb, ‘not a white guy named Edison’ during a speech while in Kenosha, Wisconsin.   Biden made the remark at the Grace Lutheran Church while speaking with community leaders after a private meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old father who was shot seven … Read more

Just one in five British women knows their pension is invested in the stock market

Just a fifth of women in the UK are aware that their pension savings are invested in the stock market, a new survey has revealed.   While a higher proportion of men surveyed understood their pension was in the stock market, that still leaves a staggering 69 per cent of the country’s workers ignorant as to … Read more

Muggers face jail after taking Audemars Piguet watch from manager at firm Lord Sugar invested in

Four muggers face jail after snatching £15,000 Audemars Piguet watch from manager at firm Lord Sugar invested in during spate of robberies of designer timepieces Leigh Fitzsimmons was robbed in Shepherd’s Bush Green last year on October 13 Adam Alarmeli, Mohammed Laanani, Ouail Lachebi and Oussama Soufi pleaded guilty They were remanded in custody ahead of … Read more

What should we do about a pension invested for our autistic daughter?

Our autistic daughter is unlikely to benefit from a pension we invested in for her – what should we do about it? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:51 BST, 22 June 2020 | Updated: 07:51 BST, 22 June 2020 In the early life of our youngest daughter, we invested … Read more