Things are looking ever gloomier for those who see the latest stalling in house price acceleration as more a speed bump then a socking great wall being hit by a Great British love affair that’s been drunk at the wheel for years. According to the latest Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) survey for March: [...]
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Andy Brough, manager of the Schroder UK Mid 250 Fund, sounds pretty upbeat in this interesting commentary on the state of the market: Not quite sure why they had to interview him in an oil sheik’s bathroom…Still, there is something reassuringly blokey about Brough, given that the man in charge of billions (and undoubtedly worth [...]
The Dividend Growth Investor blog has an interesting post about long-term dividend investing. His rule of thumb is that a dollar saved in your twenties will provide a dollar a year in your sixties: I found that the average time it took a $1,000 investment to produce $1,000 in dividend income for a full year [...]
This is the last in my series on changes to UK taxation. Gains on AIM shares now taxed at 18% This is more a sting in the tail of the changes to the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) regime we looked at earlier in the week than a wholly new rule. AIM shares are listed on [...]