A dividend is a company paying you part of its profit. Here is how it works, why the yield number misleads people, and what I look at instead. Explainer · Stocks · Income May I explain something that took me far too long to understand, mostly because everybody assumed I already had? When you own […]
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Finance · Investing · ISAs One of the most generous tax breaks in Britain, and one of the most quietly ignored. Let me guess. You have heard the phrase stocks and shares ISA thrown around, nodded along as if it were obvious, and privately wondered whether it is something you are missing out on. You
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Finance · Investing · The Way In The exciting trade is the one you remember. The quiet one is usually the one who paid. Can I confess something that still stings a little? In my earlier years, I had what I was certain was a brilliant idea. I put real money behind it, the kind
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Everyone told you the tracker fund was the sensible, boring, diversified choice. In 2026, that quietly stopped being true. For years, whenever someone nervous asked me where to start, I’d point them somewhere reassuringly dull: a low-cost fund that tracks the whole market. Don’t try to be a hero, I’d say. Buy the haystack, not
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