China sweetens FTSE as Lloyds named 'UK top pick'
Investors welcome improved Chinese economic data, helping miners. Lloyds gains as analysts label it a top UK pick.
View ArticleFacebook is back in vogue, but investors back small cap tech to deliver
Facebook's shares may have finally clawed their way back to their flotation level, but after a string of tech giants failed to deliver, investors are looking down the market cap scale.
View ArticleJames Burns: my top picks for esoteric trust yield
In recent years we have seen a large number of launches with an income focus from more alternative asset classes
View ArticleSolar projects turn to crowdfunding to secure UK's energy future
Two renewable energy projects have raised over £700,000 through online investment platform Abundance Generation, part of a growing trend for fledgling businesses to turn to crowdfunding.
View ArticleThe Expert View: Lloyds, Asos and Rightmove
A roundup of some of the best analyst commentary on shares, also including Britvic and Cobham.
View ArticleOdey takes chunky punt on embattled RSM Tenon
Crispin Odey, has taken a big position in RSM Tenon as takeover talk circulates
View ArticleCable warns RBS sell-off ‘five years away’
Hope that the Royal Bank of Scotland could be taken off tax payers hands soon has been dealt a blow by business secretary Vince Cable.
View ArticleCo-op caught in unpaid fund manager bonus storm
The Co-operative Bank is facing more trouble as fund managers in its former asset management and insurances divisions look to reclaim unpaid bonuses.
View ArticleNikkei slips as Japanese GDP growth falls well below forecasts
Investors dumped Japanese shares after a disappointing reading on the health of the nation’s economy.
View ArticleEurope: is it time to go passive?
While flows into European equity funds slowed to a trickle during the past week, passive exchange traded fund (ETFs) inflows became Europe’s ‘bright spot’, according to a report by Bank of America...
View ArticleM&G experiences £1.2bn UK redemptions as bond bear bites
More than £1.2 billion in UK assets exited M&G over the first half of the year as a growing bond bear market rattled investors at the business, which remains most well-known for its fixed income...
View ArticlePrudential and miners lead droopy FTSE
Shares slip despite report of stimulus in China. Weaker than expected reading of Japanese GDP hits yen and shares.
View ArticleSwiss firm Hansa to buy SVG Investment Managers
Switzerland's Hansa Aktiengesellschaft has struck a deal to buy investment boutique SVG Investment Managers.
View ArticleLegal & General unveils emerging market index fund
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched an emerging market index fund that aims to reduce the impact of volatility typically associated with emerging market investing.
View ArticleTrust Insider: what's pushed City of London into the £1bn trust elite?
City of London IT has managed to raise £10 million of capital in just six weeks
View ArticleThe Expert View: Hargreaves Lansdown, Catlin and Moneysupermarket
A roundup of some of the best analyst commentary on shares, also including BSkyB and Laird.
View ArticleFive frontier investment hot spots
We highlight five frontier markets the experts are betting on.
View ArticleGAM absolute return fund range has record first half
GAM Holdings registered a 58% rise in first half profit as its absolute return fund range experienced record demand, resulting in a huge jump in performance fee income.
View ArticleUK CPI falls to 2.8%
UK consumer price inflation fell to 2.8% in July, down on the previous month’s 2.9% but still well ahead of the Bank of England target of around 2%.
View ArticleEuropean shares boosted by economic reports
(UPDATE) Miners and Resolution, the insurance sector consolidator, lead FTSE 100 higher as investors eye eurozone data.
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