EQi

Thousands of teenagers found themselves cash rich when the first Child Trust Funds (CTF) matured.

Despite the last two months or so being one of the most tumultuous in history for the stock markets, EQi investors are actually feeling fairly confident.

To help those whose finances have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, the government have temporarily reduced the Lifetime ISA withdrawal penalty charge to 20%, between 6 March 2020 and 5 April 2021.

The Bank of England announced an unexpected interest rate cut of 50 basis points down to 0.25 per cent, driven by the effects of the coronavirus epidemic.

The MiFID II regulation has a strong focus on consumer protection and ensuring that customers are sold the right products for their needs. This means that any organisation that helps to facilitate your investments has to ensure that they are MiFID II compliant.

The MiFID II regulation has a strong focus on consumer protection and ensuring that customers are sold the right products for their needs. This means that before enabling you to buy an investment, MiFID II requires the distributer to undertake actions regarding identifying a target market for the investment.

Over the past week increased turbulence on global stock markets has led many market commentators to ruminate on the possibility that the decade plus long bull run will soon come to an end.

2019 has been difficult for those who invest for income, with much publicised dividend cuts at Vodafone and Royal Mail. Now Centrica has followed suit, slashing its dividend from 3.6p in 2018 to 1.5p this year.

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II came into effect on 3 January 2018 and delivered some significant changes to investing regulations in the UK.