investment

Private investors are unimpressed by the general election result according to the latest Gartmore survey of professional and active investors.

CoFunds, the investment platform, has plans to expand into the life and pensions after this morning announcing Legal & General has bought a 25% stake in the firm.

Eden Group economic consultant Max King argues it is time for the City to speak out over key investment issues in the face of an election, particularly where recent performance of the economy has been questionable.

A market matching high-net-worth investors with offers of commercial and residential property has launched as an alternative to A-Day ‘buy-to-let' investments.

Britain's high-street banks are planning to radically speed up the time it takes for direct debits and standing orders to be transferred between accounts, after intervention by the Office of Fair Trading, reports the Guardian.

Zurich Assurance has a lunched a new multimanager fund which guarantees the unit price will always be worth 80% of more of it highest value.

With the range between the higher and lower valued European stocks compressed by the market there is good scope to dig out valuable stocks not being spotted, says Franklin Templeton Europe fund manager Kenneth Cox.

Global, European and UK legislation is laying the groundwork for investors to benefit from putting money into renewable energy, according to specialist merchant bank Climate Change Capital.

A new report has revealed the amount a UK consumer saves nomw outweighs the amount borrowed for a second successive quarter.

Product providers are not allowed to provide 'inducements' to intermediary firms in return for secure distribution deals, says the FSA.