HMRC collected £6.3 billion in inheritance tax during the first nine months of the tax year – £600 million more than the same ...

Zoe was a model customer with a credit rating of 999, thousands in her account and no problems with her finances. Yet, when ...

Fund flows into investment funds turned positive in November, reversing two months of consecutive outflows, according to new data from the Investment Association. Data also showed that the top ...

Every month we look at the top funds, stocks and trusts that form investors’ portfolios. In the month of December, the latest data available, it seems UK investors couldn’t get enough of US ...

The chaos in the banking sector continues apace. Northern Rock (NRK) saw its shares plunge again as investors suspect that, despite the government bail-out, it won't be attracting any buyers any ...

As Keynes proverbially put it, "The markets can stay irrational for longer than participants can stay solvent". So it's nice to get some evidence of order in the financial world particularly the ...

Capital gains tax shot up this Autumn, and investors are already changing their behaviour in response. Whenever investors sell assets or investments at a profit, the profits they make are subject ...

It's no surprise that 'Noli Cedere' 'No Surrender' is the Tindle family motto. Sir Ray Tindle, 82, has been fighting gutsy battles his whole life. First he fought the Japanese in World War II, and ...

The Japanese recently voted to oust the LDP, which has governed since 1955. So what can Japan, and the rest of the world, expect from its successor, the DPJ? Cris Sholto Heaton reports. The recent ...

In investment parlance, a "picks-and-shovels" business is one that supplies essential equipment to companies in an industry, rather than the industry's end product. The term was coined during the ...

Some customers of bust broker Beaufort Securities could suffer unexpected losses, says John Stepek. When you invest with a stockbroker, your assets are ring-fenced from the broker's own.

Stocks have had a fantastic run-up. The rally of the past year or so has been nothing short of spectacular. But now it's time for investors to be cautious and pull in their horns. "Come on", you say.