Recently reviewing our UK Equity fund we realised that in the past decade all but two of the companies within it had faced either a major challenge to their business or issued a profit warning leading to a significant decline in the share price.
The collapse of the sale of 630 Lloyds TSB branches, 180 of them in Scotland, to the Co-operative Bank has underlined just how difficult it is to follow the campaign advice and move your money from the big banks – even if you want to.
THE search for income is driving investors into buying shares, and pushing up the stock market – the FTSE-100 hit a five-and-a-half year high this week.
SCOTTISH families will save costs equivalent to about £700 per child in funded early learning and childcare under new proposals by the Scottish Government.
Savers are being pummelled by falling interest rates and the renewal of the Government's funding for lending scheme for banks is sure to keep rates depressed.
Another service offering advice on buying your pension annuity was launched this week, after Tesco said it would soon be offering pensions on its comparison website.
The decision by the big supermarket chains to shave a penny or two off their fuel prices is little comfort to motorists, who pay one-third more to fill up than they did five years ago.
Up to 20% of policyholders in Equitable Life will receive no payout from the compensation scheme because they cannot be traced, the government revealed this week.
