• 12 December 2025

    Different ways investments generate income for you

    Income investors seeking true diversification should consider more than just whether a fund invests in shares, bonds or other asset classes when making choices for a pension or ISA.

    It’s important to look at how a fund generates an income stream for investors, as it isn’t always as straightforward as passing on dividends from investments inside its...

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  • 12 December 2025

    Why bonds matter to all investors

    When people talk about investing, shares usually steal the spotlight. But behind the scenes, there’s a much bigger player quietly shaping everything from mortgage rates to pension deficits to taxes. That’s the bond market. Worth around £150 trillion globally, bonds form the bedrock of the world’s financial system. So what exactly are they, and why...

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  • 12 December 2025

    Can Indian stocks start firing again after pause for breath?

    Despite AI fears, geopolitical conflict, and ever-changing tariff policies, markets have (for the most part) ticked along reasonably well this year.

    Even after April’s dip, the S&P 500 has recovered, and the FTSE 100 has enjoyed a much more positive year than it has in some time. But one of the world’s top markets over the past decade, India, has...

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  • 11 December 2025

    Revealed: a great way to find stocks at a discount

    In this article we’re on the hunt for shares which are trading at valuations which are significantly lower than they have historically traded on.

    To do this we have screened for companies trading at a discount to their average 10-year forward PE or price to earnings ratio.

    The forward PE ratio is a stock valuation measure that uses a company’s...

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  • 11 December 2025

    The how and why of investing in the pharmaceutical sector

    Could investing in pharmaceutical companies get your portfolio in better shape? The pharma sector is, at the very least, difficult to ignore given it represents around a fifth of the MSCI World index. It has also outperformed this global benchmark index over the last 30 years.

    In the last three and five years though, pharma stocks have...

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