Investment Trusts

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

Alastair Smith of Frostrow Capital explains why investment trusts should start to feature more heavily in your clients’ portfolios.

Derek Bradley, CEO of PanaceaIFA.com, laments the FSA’s decision not to pre-approve financial products.

Platform FundsNetwork is developing functionality to allow advisers to declare whether or not their post-RDR activities constitute "advice" in a bid to clear up ambiguities surrounding legacy commission.

SIPP investors who have the vast majority of their assets held in Unit Trusts or OEICs may be better off using a platform pension due to cost, says Skandia.

Alliance Trust has alerted the Financial Services Authority (FSA) after a number of its shareholders received bogus telephone calls offering to buy shares at double their market value.

Risk profiling, getting the right balance with pension funds and investing in America were all over the nationals at the weekend. Here's what your clients will be calling you about this week.

The winners of the Investment Week Investment Trust Awards 2011 were announced at a glittering ceremony in London last night.

Morningstar has changed its methodology for rating closed-ended funds, with the aim of making it easier for investors to compare risk-adjusted performance against open-ended equivalents.