The past decade has been highly profitable for many investors in buy-to-let properties. House prices across the UK have benefitted from low interest rates, a lack of supply and high demand among first-time buyers to post strong capital gains. As such, many investors may be contemplating the purchase of property Read More...

The start of a new year is always a good time to review your finances. This is particularly true if youre saving for retirement now is the perfect time to analyse your progress and determine whether youre on track to achieve your goals. Need to get your retirement savings into Read More...

The FTSE 100s performance in 2019 was stunning. The index recorded a rise of 12% during the calendar year. When its dividend is added to that figure, the FTSE 100s total return for the year was around 16%. Thats almost twice as much as its annualised total return since inception, Read More...

At the start of each month, over 22m people who have investments in Premium Bonds no doubt excitedly check their accounts to see if they have won any prizes. The sums range from smaller sub-100 prizes to the golden goose of 1m. Given the potential to make such a large Read More...

Legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett is worth $89bn and is the third richest person in the world after Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. He has shared many nuggets of investing wisdom over the years, but it all boils down to Read More...

Its that time of year when we look back and reflect on the year thats just gone. From a UK stock market perspective, despite all the negative headlines and geopolitical drama, 2019 turned out to be a pretty good year for investors. Solid gains for the FTSE 100 The FTSE Read More...