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Following on from Kepler’s recent announcement of their 2024 Investment Trust ratings,

We reveal the winners of our Investment Trust Ratings for 2024…by Thomas McMahon

Ethical and environmental considerations in our daily lives have been thrown into sharp relief by the coronavirus crisis

Review your pension today to get ahead with your retirement planning

The chances are you’ve heard of SIPPs – Self Invested Personal Pensions – and maybe you have a good idea how they work. However, lots of people have either never heard of a SIPP or have been put off opening one because they feel they are too complicated or too time consuming to manage.

How much do you have in your pension? Do you even know where all your pensions are? And most importantly of all, are you certain you’ll have enough to live on when you retire?

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He, who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.’ Albert Einstein

Whatever style an investor adopts, the goal is always to identify and buy an asset in the hope and expectation that its price will increase; whilst the ambition may be simple enough, its achievement may be altogether trickier – how do you judge whether your investments are positioned to get the best possible return? – asks Christian Leeming.

Investment trusts were once dubbed the ‘best kept secret in the City’; not any more it seems, as investors have embraced the fact that some trusts have consistently increased their dividends over decades, and have done so in the face of enormous headwinds – just one of which is the current COVID-19 pandemic.1 - writes Hannah Barnaby

The increasing popularity of share buybacks in the UK market

Financial first footing could see geopolitical upheaval vying with social, economic and environmental crises as the key influences in the year ahead.

Discussing the evolution of UK Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs),