Last month saw overall investor sentiment hit a high of 16%, according to Lloyds’ Private Banking Investor Sentiment Index.    Net sentiment increased for seven of the ten asset classes surveyed with only a modest decline for the other three, leading to its highest overall score since June 2014...

Investors are not satisfied that their pension and investment providers are committed to supporting the new financial freedoms which came into effect this week, according to research by DIY investment platform TD Direct Investing...

In a recent speech, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andrew Haldane, raises the question as to whether the global economy is sitting at the cusp of a period of secular innovation (the optimist view) or secular stagnation (the pessimist view)...

Managing My Investments (MMI) - the new MOOC produced by the True Potential PUFin Centre at the Open University - goes live on 11th May on FutureLearn...

The UK stock market has performed almost twice as well under Conservative governments, according to financial services provider Hargreaves Lansdown (HL)...

Investors who invest a lump sum into their ISA allowance now – at the start of the 2015/16 tax year – will benefit from a whole year of compound returns, resulting in greater returns than if they were to invest at the end of the tax year, according to Nick Hungerford, CEO of Investment firm Nutmeg...

By Mike Abbott, Head of Wealth at Sable Group   2014 was a bad year for active managers: according to a recent article in the FT it was the worst on record...

Aviva Investors has been fined £17.6m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for systems and controls failings.   The FCA says these failings led to Aviva Investors’ failure to manage conflicts of interest fairly...