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After what seems like an eternity the FCA has confirmed that it is to permanently ban the marketing of so-called Mini Bonds to retail investors. The products and the dubious marketing techniques used to promote came into public view with the collapse of London Capital and Finance which offered returns of 8% to investors in

PensionBee’s new pension plan will be full of sugar and spice and all things nice – without dirty investments such as fossil fuels, arms, tobacco and other controversial sectors. When PensionBee announced plans to launch a fossil fuel-free personal pension plan, they said it would need to raise £100 in order to make it successful.

You can now track the performance of the best female hedge fund managers. One of the UK’s largest fund management businesses Aberdeen Standard Investments launched a new product today. One that was aimed squarely at increasing diversity within the investment industry, in the shape of a female-only fund of hedge funds. Whilst other ESG  (ethical)

A year after Its launch, Moneyfarm is beating a swift retreat from its German operations to concentrate on its existing UK and Italian businesses. Just a year after its launch in Germany, MoneyFarm is shutting its operations there and concentrate on its existing UK and Italian operations. The news comes on the back of disappointing

The CME introduces E-mini Micro Options on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indices Chicago-based CME Group, one of the world’s largest exchange operators for options trading has announced the launch of a series of micro options on US equity indices. The two contracts are over the Micro Emini-S&P 500  and Micro Emini Nasdaq 100

The introduction of CFDs to private investors and traders just over twenty years ago kickstarted a revolution in the financial markets that continues to this day. Democratising access to markets and products and opening up customer choice, but these ongoing changes are also blurring the boundaries between active retail and professional traders and smaller institutions.

As the trend for ESG investing increases UK merchant bank Close Brothers, asset management division, CBAM, is to launch two new sustainable funds to meet demand from its clients the bank announced today. Closing in on sustainable returns The new offerings will join the existing stable of funds in which CBAM manages more than £12.0

A reader has asked: I held shares with SVS, who went into administration and now we are offered ITI Capital as an alternative broker. They don’t suit my needs so I am looking for a broker where I can hold my shares in an account that is usually inactive. I don’t want to pay a