Synopsis: After a strong 2013, markets had a distinctly jittery January As we commented in our earlier Bulletin, most world equity markets had a good 2013, with the UK up 16.7% and the US rising by nearly 30%. There was even a somewhat late Christmas rally to round things off. However, 2014 has got underway […]

NATIONAL SAVINGS Synopsis: National Savings & Investments will cut rates on their Direct ISA from the end of February. Date posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 One of the small surprises in the Autumn Statement was that the National Savings & Investments (NS&I) net financing target for 2013/14 was increased from nil to £2bn, albeit with […]