With spring now in full season and the clocks moved to British Summer Time, it’s the perfect time to take a fresh look at your finances and build an investment pot for later in life. This article tells you how to build your ISA the low-cost, easy way. Our exercise is not solely aimed at beginners. There’s plenty of people who are actively trading stocks to make quick profits, but who don’t ...

Reinvesting your dividends is a powerful way of increasing the return on your investment, but the range of charges, restrictions and fine print set by companies and stockbrokers can make the process seem mind-boggling. To make things easier for you we have contacted the major UK stockbrokers to find out where and how you can apply for automatic dividend reinvestment, what terms and conditions you ...

This week our series on portfolio construction turns full circle with a look at how our sixth and final age group, a 15-year-old, could think about planning their financial future. As with the other five portfolios, this is not meant to be prescriptive – no single batch of investments, no matter how well constructed, can cater for the needs of everyone, given their differing personal financial ...

In the third week of our new feature that highlights the issues you need to consider when you build your own investment portfolio, we look at how a 55-year-old might go about planning for their financial future. Again, the key questions about ultimate goals, time horizon, appetite for risk and target returns go a long way to conditioning our investor’s strategy. The age of 55 is particularly ...

In the second week of our new feature designed to boost your knowledge and confidence so you can design a portfolio which best suits your investment goals, target returns, time horizon and appetite for risk, we look at how a 40-year-old might go about planning for their financial future. In contrast to last week’s 30-year old, our 40-year-old saver is free of the burden of student loan ...