Investments

Since their launch in April 1999, Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) have gone from strength to strength. By 2000, the British public had £29bn stored in ISAs; fast forward seven years and that amount has rocketed to an astonishing £208bn. That is almost as much as the amount currently owed on ... read more »

Pity the hard life of a bounty hunter. After years of faithful service to the ‘Empire’, he gets buried in the back garden, has his head chewed by the family dog and is unceremoniously thrown into the garbage. All of which seems a little unfair when all the little guy wants to do is hunt a ... read more »

"I bought the football shirt as an investment," sounds like an ill-thought-out excuse for a rash purchase. It may seem odd to see the words ‘football’ and ‘investment’ sitting together in the same sentence but sports memorabilia has become big business in recent years. For instance, in ... read more »

In 1999, the government introduced Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) for an initial period of ten years. So successful have these tax-efficient saving schemes proven - over 17 million people have invested in an ISA (double the number of people who ever invested in a Tessa or PEP) - that the ... read more »

The countdown is on for anyone who has yet to make the most of their tax-free savings allowances this year. There are only a couple of weeks to go before the end of the tax year on April 5, so if you haven`t used your annual individual savings account (ISA) allowance this year - act now or ... read more »