The risks of concentrated funds

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

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

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

On the face of it, Taiwan seems an unlikely location for a tech superpower as it is a small island with a population that is not even half that of Britain’s. But “just as some small countries have man

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