Women at risk of running out of pension wealth seven years into retirement July 24, 2025 Women are retiring with significantly less pension wealth than men, leaving them at greater risk of running out of wealth just seven years into retirement, new analysis has found. Gen X women, aged 55-59, have just £81,000 in their pension on average, compared to the £156,000 held by men of the same age, leaving them [...]
Britons miss out on maximising ISA allowance by investing too late July 23, 2025 UK consumers who delay investing in their ISA allowance until the end of the tax year could significantly reduce their potential for long term growth, analysts have warned. Investors who delay investing in stocks and shares ISAs have missed out on as much as £123,000 in compound growth over the past 20 years, according to [...]
City raises a glass to Reeves’ reforms July 16, 2025 The City may have been a bit damp and grey yesterday but the Chancellor appeared as a welcome ray of sunshine. At Morning Wire, we haven’t held back in our criticism of this government’s economic policies – and we’ll return to that theme before long, I’m sure – but we also believe in giving credit [...]
Retail investors cut back on dining out to free up investment capital July 2, 2025 Retail investors have become more frugal, but only so they can invest more, writes Carl Hazeley, CEO of retail investor hub Finimize.
Majority of Brits don’t understand investment funds, survey finds June 4, 2025 A majority of Brits lack knowledge of key financial and investment terms, a new study from Hargreaves Lansdown has found, underscoring the scale of the challenge to encourage more people to invest for the long term. Only 37 per cent of Brits could correctly identify an investment fund, according to a survey of 2,000 people [...]
JP Morgan launches risk-rated investment portfolios June 3, 2025 JP Morgan plans to scale up its UK investment offering after fresh research revealed a huge frustration among UK retail investors. The lender found nearly one in six UK investors were unsatisfied with the income they received from investments, despite two-thirds saying the income from investing was important. The firm is using its Asset Management [...]
Exclusive: UK retail investors ‘buy the dip’ amid market collapse April 23, 2025 UK retail investors rushed to ‘buy the dip’ at record rates as they searched for bargains amid a global collapse in stock markets following the reveal of US president Donald Trump’s tariff regime. Buying across investment platforms has been substantially elevated, sometimes outnumbering sell orders by as much as four to one, data provided to [...]
Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder returns to board after £5.4bn takeover April 21, 2025 The billionaire co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown has made a surprise return to the investment platform’s board following its private equity takeover last year. Peter Hargreaves, who helped set up the investment site in 1981 and stepped down as a director a decade ago, will reappear on the company board in a non-executive role. Hargreaves has [...]
Confidence in UK stocks hits new high among retail investors April 3, 2025 Confidence in the UK market has hit new highs among British retail investors as savers move away from US stocks. A third of all retail investors are backing the UK as the top performing stock market over the next five years, a survey of 1,000 investors from Etoro found, well above the previous record of [...]
Three months of Trump have shown investors are hard to be spooked April 2, 2025 Trump's presidency is yet to spook retail investors. In fact, many are increasing their investments, writes Finimize CEO Carl Hazeley.