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Using a Junior ISA to help your kids with the costs of university
Thursday 09 May 2024One of the most compelling reasons for investing through a Junior ISA is to help provide your offspring with the necessary funds to leave university without the burden of onerous debts. If you invested the whole allowance of £9,000 every year from birth until your child reached 18 they would...
How easy is it to switch your Child’s Trust Fund to a Junior ISA account?
Thursday 09 May 2024Almost 42% of young adults aged between the ages of 18 and 20 have not claimed savings in their matured Child Trust Fund (CTF), according to data from the account providers’ trade association. According to the Share Foundation, the value of unclaimed savings is now over £1.7 billion, while a 2022...
Stocks to reward you for decades to come: Searching for dividends, quality and exciting growth potential
Thursday 09 May 2024The last couple of years have seen outsized returns for stocks, especially those in the US, but that doesn’t mean now is a bad time to invest. The truth is there is never a bad time to invest as long as you are looking to stay invested for the long term. From its inception in 1984 to 2022, the FTSE...
Is South Korea the new Japan for stocks
Thursday 09 May 2024From pop groups, TV shows, cars, home appliances, electronics and smartphones, South Korean brands have for years been familiar to global consumers. Millions of homes are filled with Smartphones and TVs made by Samsung Electronics (005930:KRX) and LG Electronics (006657:KRX) , cars made by Hyundai...
How to invest like Warren Buffett
Thursday 09 May 2024Warren Buffett is probably the only professional investor who needs no introduction. Over a long and illustrious career stretching back to 1965, he’s produced a mind-boggling 4,384,749% return for investors through his investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway. In other words, $100 invested in 1965...
Understand the chemicals sector and whether 2024 can see a recovery
Thursday 02 May 2024Chemicals companies produce the compounds used in a huge variety of different industrial and consumer products across sectors which include agriculture, healthcare, technology, aerospace, sports, leisure and beauty. The breadth of the industry’s focus means its fortunes are closely tied to the...
Would UK companies get a higher rating by moving their listing to the US?
Thursday 02 May 2024In the last few weeks, the drumbeat of companies complaining about the lowly valuation of their shares and floating the idea of moving to the US market has grown steadily louder. First there was miner Glencore (GLEN) , then oil major Shell (SHEL) started making noises and most recently online...
Tesla at a crossroads: Can concerted move into mass market recharge the shares?
Thursday 02 May 2024Just when investors think they have got the measure of Tesla (TSLA:NASDAQ) , Elon Musk drops a bomb. Having feared the worst, Tesla’s first quarter (Q1) 2024 report (25 April) gave investors the clarity they were seeking on mass-market vehicles, and while detail remains thin, Musk said production...
Why Darktrace is getting exciting again
Thursday 25 Apr 2024I t must be maddening for analysts that every time they’ve put forecasts for Darktrace (DARK) into the market, they’re forced to tear them up and start again. It happened for the third time already this year earlier this month (11 April), in the wake of a surprisingly strong third fiscal quarter...
Tap into micro caps for a slice of UK innovation
Thursday 25 Apr 2024A key rationale for investing in the smallest companies on the UK market is that these businesses have the most capacity for growth. However, for several reasons investing in micro-cap businesses is not for everyone and has, with some notable exceptions, proved less than fruitful in recent years...