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The QE market wobbles explained

The QE market wobbles explained

The recent volatility in bond and equity markets has one root cause – the prospect of the Federal Reserve putting a stop to its quantitative easing programme writes Cherry Reynard. [...]

Would jailing top bankers make us safer? Mindful Money’s view

Would jailing top bankers make us safer? Mindful Money’s view

Perhaps the UK’s driving legislation gives us the best frame to look at the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard’s latest report. As with drivers in a car, bankers should be [...]

Average rents due to hit £800 by mid 2015 says LSL property services

Average rents due to hit £800 by mid 2015 says LSL property services

Average rents in England and Wales are due to hit £800 per month by mid-2015 and up by 21% since 2010 according to projections from LSL Property Servicees. Despite rent [...]

Divorce leaves retirees with £2,600 smaller pension and more likely to have mortgage debts on retirement

Divorce leaves retirees with £2,600 smaller pension and more likely to have mortgage debts on retirement

Retirees who have been divorced expect a £13,800 annual retirement income compared with £16,400 for those who have never had a marriage breakdown according to research from Prudential. Divorce reduces [...]

Over 75s saw highest inflation in May says Alliance Trust Economic Research Centre

Over 75s saw highest inflation in May says Alliance Trust Economic Research Centre

The 75 and over age group faced the highest rate of inflation in May at 3.0%, a 0.1% rise on the previous month, according to the Alliance Trust Economic Research [...]

Europe equities opportunity as Eurozone emerges from crisis says J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Europe equities opportunity as Eurozone emerges from crisis says J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Investors have the potential to gain strong returns from European equities J.P. Morgan Asset Management is arguing. In Market Insights: The opportunities in European equities, it argues that strong returns [...]

Fidelity’s Anthony Bolton to retire next year

Fidelity’s Anthony Bolton to retire next year

Fidelity’s Anthony Bolton, arguably the UK’s most famous fund manager has announced he is to retire from the business next year writes Philip Scott. Bolton ran the Fidelity Special Situations [...]

Psigma sets out ways to generate income in these ‘incredible’ conditions

Psigma sets out ways to generate income in these ‘incredible’ conditions

Psigma’s chief investment officer Tom Becket has set out how he believes the fund will generate income in what some are calling a yield free world without concentrating risk. In [...]

Warning that a third of employers may discontinue childcare vouchers before new scheme is up and running in 2015

Consultancy firm Jelf Employee Benefits has found a third of employers will scrap the Childcare Voucher schemes before Government replacement is available. The Government proposes to introduce a new childcare [...]

Hollande u-turns on capital gains tax on second homes

President Francois Hollande has announced a change in the capital gains tax system on second home sales which should benefit UK owners and allow more sales. The taper relief system [...]

Concerns over Fed Policy overwrought says BlackRock’s Koesterich

While it makes sense to focus on Fed policy recent reactions appear to us to be extreme says BlackRock’s Chief Investment Strategist. Russ Koesterich. In a note issued this week, [...]

Abenomics – Jupiter’s Japan Income fund manager Simon Somerville gives his verdict

Simon Somerville, the manager of the Jupiter Japan Income Fund has just returned from a trip to Japan to investigate the impact of Abenomics the name given to the series [...]

Charles Stanley tips Legg Mason US Smaller Companies for US recovery play and ‘blue collar industries’ revival

Charles Stanley Direct has tipped the Legg Mason US Smaller Companies Fund to play the US recovery including oil shale and the return of’ blue collar’ manufacturing drawn by cheap [...]

F&C tips dialysis specialist DaVita Healthcare Partner for long term

The healthcare market offers investment opportunities driven by R&D but also increasing access to healthcare in emerging markets notably China, Brazil and India says investment firm F&C. In a note [...]

Property firm defends overseas central London buyers against ‘London houses for Londoners’ critics

A Central London property and investment firm is making the case for high net worth foreign buyers in central London arguing that numbers have been over-estimated and owners’ contributions to [...]

Politicians ‘playing chicken’ with each other over the triple lock on the state pension

Politicians just don’t seem able to not discuss the triple lock on the state pension or maybe it is journalists who can’t stop asking. This time, the FT interviews pension minister Steve [...]

Monday shares outlook

Mindful Money looks at the shares in stock broker sights right now. Stocks to watch over the coming week include Whitbread and Imagination Technologies, while Mulberry dresses for further success writes Philip Scottt. [...]

Wine Owners – a comprehensive solution to wine management and trading

Nick Martin founder and CEO of Wineowners.com talks about why he set up the website and how it can make the experience of owning, investing in and trading wine all [...]

Payingtoomuch.com suggests annuities are better for retirement income than buy-to-let

Many people have buy-to-let properties which they see as their ‘pension’ – either from the income they get each month or the capital which is hopefully growing – or both. [...]

FTSE 100 Friday market close – top flight index now down 5 per cent in 30 days

The FTSE 100 racked up another week of losses as international influences took their toll writes Philip Scott. At the start of the week Japanese policymakers declined to up their [...]

Five things investors learned this week

Stephen Hester is stepping down as chief executive of RBS. The markets didn’t like it much with shares falling more than 7 per cent before recovering some ground as Sky.com reported. [...]

Hargreaves Lansdown suggests alternative funds to Chris Rice’s Cazenove European fund

Chris Rice, the star manager of the £1bn Cazenove European fund has announced he is leaving the firm, after 10 years service, next month. Under Rice’s tenure the fund returned [...]

Eurozone dealt unemployment and inflation double-blow

The beleaguered eurozone has been dealt a double-blow as latest figures show the rate of unemployment and inflation continue to creep up. The number of employed dropped by 0.5% in [...]

In brief: Cazenove’s long-serving European fund manager Chris Rice quits group

Chris Rice, manager of the £1bn Cazenove European fund has announced he is leaving the firm. Rice who had been with the company for the past decade leaves in July, [...]

Breaking the illusion on tapering

We have all seen the recent market reaction to the previous unheard of concept of tapering – certainly unheard of when it comes to the Federal Reserve and Quantitative Easing. [...]

Will the UK come to regret the departure of RBS boss Stephen Hester?

In the past, Mindful Money has discussed the pros and cons of an early return of RBS to the private sector. We suggested that were one to view it as [...]

Credit reference agencies and your business

Most business owners have a need for credit every now and again. It isn’t always a huge amount, with thousands of people all over the country applying for it regularly [...]

Those million over 65 workers are surely set to grow in number

With news yesterday that more than a million of the over 65s are continuing to work, Mindful Money expressed a hope that most were doing so out of choice not [...]

Should ill-health allow you take more from income drawdown than the Government currently allows?

If you are unfortunate enough to have a long term health condition and are approaching retirement, there has always been some financial consolation in the fact that you can get [...]

Greece an emerging market again says MSCI, the world’s largest index provider

Greece has been downgraded to emerging market status by the MSCI the largest provider of global indices. The move will see Greece allocated around 0.3 per cent of the overall [...]