MERCANTILE INVESTMENT: Trust pins hopes on UK prospects

MERCANTILE INVESTMENT: £2bn trust pins hopes on UK’s purple patch By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 13 March 2021 Fund manager Guy Anderson is excited about the prospects for the UK economy and the stock market – more so than at any time in … Read more

Selena Gomez talks trust issues as she has been single since splitting from Justin Bieber

Selena Gomez has been single since she split from Justin Bieber three years ago. And now the beauty, who has a new Spanish-language EP entitled Revelacion coming out this week, has told the April cover for Vogue magazine that it is hard to trust people. ‘I can’t meet someone and know if they like me for me,’ the … Read more

POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL: Trust well placed for recovery

POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL FINANCIALS TRUST: £221m trust is well placed for the recovery By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2021 Investment trust Polar Capital Global Financials represents a big market play on economic recovery. If the world economy bounces back as many … Read more

Scottish Mortgage was down 25% since February. What does this mean for the UK’s most popular trust? 

The hugely popular Scottish Mortgage investment trust has slumped by more than 25 per cent in three weeks as it suffered from a sell-off in global technology and growth stocks. Rising US bond yields and inflation fears sent the £16billion fund’s share price falling another 4.5 per cent today to 1,040p. That leaves legions of British … Read more

£400m in Child Trust Funds opened 18 years ago waiting to be claimed

Teenagers are sitting on £400 million in childhood savings they may not know exist. Around 200,000 Child Trust Funds (CTF) are still waiting to be claimed – with an average of £2,000 in each, figures reveal.  The investment and cash savings accounts were opened for every child born between September 1, 2002, and January 2, … Read more

£400m in Child Trust Funds opened 18 years ago waiting to be claimed

Teenagers are sitting on £400 million in childhood savings they may not know exist. Around 200,000 Child Trust Funds (CTF) are still waiting to be claimed – with an average of £2,000 in each, figures reveal.  The investment and cash savings accounts were opened for every child born between September 1, 2002, and January 2, … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Clean up the mess over missing child trust funds

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Lost child trust funds that could make the world of difference to so many young people By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 If young adults ever needed a windfall, it’s now. Many have lost a year of education and … Read more

Whistle-blowing Iraqi surgeon at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust ‘suffered racial harassment’

A whistle-blowing surgeon from Iraq suffered racial discrimination and harassment after raising the alarm about patient safety at a trust where he claimed ‘white and Indian doctors were untouchable’, a tribunal has found. Associate specialist surgeon Dr Manuf Kassem raised concern about the care of 25 patients at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust … Read more

Ministers again refuse to back proposals aimed at helping disabled trust fund savers

The Government has again refused to publicly back proposals designed to make it easier for the parents of disabled children to access Child Trust Fund savings, as it was warned as much as £107million could be ‘lost’ over the next decade. Responding to questions in the House of Lords on Thursday, justice minister Lord Wolfson … Read more

SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: Income is still essential

SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: All change at £200 investment fund, but income is still essential By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 It has been all change at Securities Trust of Scotland, at £200million investment fund with a global income mandate.  Since … Read more