Investments & Savings
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Bargain hunters came out top in 2025, but a buy and hold global passive approach wins in the long run
Laith Khalaf, head of investment analysis at AJ Bell, reviews the firm’s 2025 Investor Style League, showing bargain hunting as the top-performing…
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Red flags, green shoots, and a year of quiet tensions: Omni Invest’s Fabian Wiesner offers a pragmatic investment outlook
As 2026 unfolds, familiar investment risks are resurfacing, but with sharper edges. Interest rate expectations, AI’s evolving influence, and increasingly transactional geopolitics…
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Fidelity International expands Research Enhanced ETF range with two active bond strategies
Fidelity International (“Fidelity”), a global asset manager and retirement savings business, today announces the expansion of its Research Enhanced ETF range with…
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Global managed income 2026 outlook: Defence remains key according to Ninety One’s Stopford
Markets enter 2026 facing persistent fiscal pressures, concentrated equity leadership and an uneven global recovery, defence takes precedence over outright risk-taking. Following…
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True Potential Investments Portfolios celebrate 10 years at the top
True Potential Investments is this month celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Portfolios, which have consistently delivered top quartile returns to customers…
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Gold outlook to Q4 2026: Into uncharted territory
Nitesh Shah, Head of Commodities and Macroeconomic Research at WisdomTree, assesses gold’s strongest year since 1979 and considers whether the metal is…
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Record £27.9m of gold and massive £45.3m of silver changes hands
Monday’s jump to $5,000 gold and $100 silver prices saw a record value traded by users of BullionVault. Blowing past the previous all-time…
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Gold and gold equities: Schroders’ Luke shares outlook for 2026
Not since the crises of the 1970s has gold performed as strongly as in 2025. Amidst geopolitical uncertainty playing into short-term movements, James…
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Reduced interest rates for selected variable NS&I products
From Thursday 12 February, NS&I will be reducing the interest rates for its Direct Saver and Income Bonds products. The new rate…
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First-time investors pour into precious metals as gold breaks $5000 and silver tops $100
Precious metals marketplace BullionVault is seeing the wave of new first-time buyers accelerate as gold hits new all-time highs above $5000 gold…

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