Active funds break records in 2025, both good and bad

If you’ve ever put cash into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), it is likely to have been a passive investment: a fund that tracks a particular stockmarket index up and down, rather than actively trying t

Determining when to call time on a struggling investment vehicle

The technology-led US stockmarket has hit another record peak. There are rumours of stonking pay packages for software developers in Silicon Valley. One of the leading tech behemoths has just achieved

Income has historically been one of the best-performing investment strategies. The average annualised return of dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 between 1973 and 2024 was 9.2%, compared with 4.3%

UK equities are having their time in the sun. The FTSE 100 recently hit an all-time high of 9,000, driven by a broad recovery in equity prices. To put it another way, the rally wasn’t just driven by a

Trade tariffs, the Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine crises are all issues F&C’s Paul Niven takes in his stride