Tagged: Costs

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup, 24th November 2015

Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: deflation, fund costs, Fundsmith, emerging makets, taxes, low yields, FX volatility and the war on pensioner.

Weekly Roundup, 28th Octoiber 2015

Weekly Roundup, 28th October 2015

Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: stamp duty, IFA charges, parking scams, buy-to-let REIT, 1997 bull market again, oil, immigration, tax credits.

Weekly Roundup, 19th May 2015

Weekly Roundup, 19th May 2015

Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: property trusts, fees, Budget, pensions, tax, infrastructure &"one-stop" funds, bond yields & the debt subsidy

Weekly Roundup, 10th Matrch 2015

Weekly Roundup, 10th March 2015

Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: tax avoidance, VCTs, pensions, P2P, crowdfunding, farmland, trading rules, Apple and property taxes

10 things that happened in 2014

10 things that happened in 2014

I had planned to write about five nice things and five nasty ones, but it hasn’t been that kind of year. Instead I have chosen three nice things and seven…

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup, 23rd December 2014

We start today’s weekly roundup with more pensions reviews. IPB pensions review Josephine Cumbo in the FT reported that pensions minister Steve Webb wanted “big, bold answers” from the industry….

Weekly roundup

Weekly Roundup, 10th December 2014

We begin today’s weekly roundup with a chart from the FT. Hidden fund costs The charges on active funds seem to be in the news every week at the moment….

Weekly roundup for UK DIY investor

Weekly Roundup, 24th November 2014

Active funds – costs and closet tracking Today’s weekly roundup begins with Merryn’s column, which looked at a report from Cass Business School on some of the problems with active funds. The first…