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Last year was a good one for investment trusts. They saw a total return of 16.1% (as measured by the FTSE All-Share Investments index, which excludes 3i) – well behind the All-Share index total return

Centrica focuses on investment: Lower energy prices weighed on Centrica’s full-year earnings for 2025, which fell 40% from a year earlier, says Rachel Millard in the Financial Times. The owner of Brit

The adage that “elephants don’t gallop” – as the late investor Jim Slater put it – has become accepted wisdom. Yet for many years, large caps have comfortably outstripped smaller ones. The Numis Small

Here’s a “market paradox”, says Craig Mellow in Barron’s. The more the US government “trash talks Europe, the better it is for the euro”. The single currency has gained 13% against the greenback since

Automatic enrolment (AE) into workplace pension schemes has transformed retirement saving for good. After it was introduced in 2012, the percentage of all employees joining their workplace pension sch

Nick Train, Terry Smith, James Anderson and Harry Nimmo are among the most celebrated British fund managers. All four built outstanding records in their respective styles by employing a high-convictio