17 April 2026

Why US small-caps have seen an uptick in fortunes

US large-caps have been the unparalleled leader in equity market returns and investor inflows to the detriment of its small cap peers. But as the global market order shifts US small caps are showing signs of a revival.

Globally, small caps have struggled over the past five years, with higher interest rates and inflation creating a headwind to this...

16 April 2026

How I invest: The NHS doctor giving their Lifetime ISA a second life after buying a house

Saving for your first home is often the first major financial goal a person sets and for Aaron, getting over his anxiety that investing wasn’t for someone like him was a key part of achieving that dream.

Back in 2016 when Aaron was 26 and studying to become an NHS doctor, he opened a Lifetime ISA with the explicit goal of saving up to buy his...

15 April 2026

What are alternative investments?

One of the first things people are told to think about when they’re investing is to make sure that...

11 April 2026

Property funds are coming out of limbo: here's what's changing

Property funds are getting a long-awaited shake up in a bid to keep this shrinking part of the market alive and increase appeal to investors in the long-term.

Most of us are familiar with investing in property through owning a home. Ideally, you’d get on the property ladder and, down the line, sell your house for more than you paid or rent it for...

10 April 2026

Explaining the difference between the most popular global tracker funds

Global tracker funds and ETFs are one of the most popular ways for investors to gain access to the market.

These passive instruments track an underlying index. Tracking refers to the strategy of building an investment portfolio designed to mimic rather than beat the performance of a specific market, giving exposure to all the companies in that...

6 April 2026

All-in-one funds are getting creative to maintain diversification

Diversification is one of the cornerstones of investing and multi-asset funds, sometimes called ‘all-in-one' or ‘one-stop-shop' funds, are one of the simplest ways to gain exposure to a broad spread of investments.

But amid a few years of testing market environments, multi-asset fund managers have been expanding their investment horizons to...

28 March 2026

Why most fund managers ignore crypto despite its bumper returns

Bitcoin has become a catch-all term for all things cryptocurrency, an asset which has captured investors' attention for the best part of two decades. Yet it's an investment which has largely been shunned by professionals in the fund manager space.

Launched in 2009 by the anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto as a rebellion to the traditional banking...

24 March 2026

Three reasons selling your investments in a panic can really cost you

An often-repeated mantra of investing – which has reappeared with understandable frequency over the past month – is that it's also about time in the market rather than timing the market.

Putting your money to work and then leaving it to benefit from the compound effect is an approach which has been proven to work historically.

But human emotions...

23 March 2026

Why some of the biggest tech investors are moving away from the Mag 7

The Magnificent Seven, a collection of the biggest US technology firms, have been a key feature of global equity funds for the better part of the decade. This is in part because their market dominance demanded a place, and high returns made it hard to argue against holding them.

Made up of Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple joined by Microsoft...

20 March 2026

The funds that could help you avoid sleepless nights

There’s plenty of news to keep investors' brains buzzing right now. The ongoing message from an investment perspective is to ignore the noise and not panic. But there are some funds designed to provide exactly the sort of reassurance and wealth preservation some people will be looking for, not just during a crisis, but against any market backdrop.

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