Scottish Mortgage has 5.8% of its funds invested in China’s Tencent

Scottish Mortgage bets big on Beijing: UK’s biggest investment trust has 5.8% of its funds invested in Tencent By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 19 July 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 19 July 2021 The UK’s biggest and most popular investment trust is one of Tencent’s top backers. About 5.8 per … Read more

Ant & Dec and Phillip Schofield to lose £8m from villa complex they invested in that went bust

Ant and Dec and Phillip Schofield stand to lose £8million after court rules they won’t get compensation for ‘dream villa’ complex they invested in before the developers went bust Ant and Dec set to lose millions after court ruled they won’t get compensation  Invested more than two million each into luxury villas on the Algarve … Read more

Ant & Dec and Phillip Schofield to lose £8m from villa complex they invested in that went bust

Ant and Dec and Phillip Schofield stand to lose £8million after court rules they won’t get compensation for ‘dream villa’ complex they invested in before the developers went bust Ant and Dec set to lose millions after court ruled they won’t get compensation  Invested more than two million each into luxury villas on the Algarve … Read more

How can I find out if my civil service pension is invested ethically?

Could you please tell me how I find out how my pension is invested. I’m in the civil service pension scheme, and I’m interested how the money is invested, that it is not invested in fossil fuel industries and that it is invested ethically. I could not find any data on this. Could you send … Read more

MR MONEY MAKER: It’s not about timing the market… not being invested is the worst error of all

MR MONEY MAKER: It’s not about timing the market… not being invested is the worst error of all By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 What a year: 2020 has been frightening, painful and, for many, desperately sad. So invest in … Read more

New tool shows what your shares in major companies would be worth if you invested at the start

Netflix, Asos and Microsoft are just three companies whose share prices have soared since they floated and now you can find out how other global brands have fared. eToro has launched an ‘Investment Time Machine’ to show savers what could be sitting in their pot today had they invested in some of the world’ biggest … Read more

How did it take three months to get back the £50,000 I had invested in Premium Bonds?

One of the major attractions of owning Premium Bonds – apart from the chance of winning a monthly prize of between £25 and £1million – is that you can get back your money within eight working days.  Or so I thought before recently attempting to withdraw my maximum holding of £50,000. Having to wait a … Read more

Joe Biden claims a black man invested the light bulb, ‘not a white guy named Edison’

Joe Biden on Thursday said that a black man created the light bulb, ‘not a white guy named Edison’ during a speech while in Kenosha, Wisconsin.   Biden made the remark at the Grace Lutheran Church while speaking with community leaders after a private meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old father who was shot seven … Read more

Just one in five British women knows their pension is invested in the stock market

Just a fifth of women in the UK are aware that their pension savings are invested in the stock market, a new survey has revealed.   While a higher proportion of men surveyed understood their pension was in the stock market, that still leaves a staggering 69 per cent of the country’s workers ignorant as to … Read more