Octopus Investments
Octopus Protected VCT
Type: Venture capital trust
Aim: Income and growth by investing in unquoted companies
Minimum investment: Lump sum £1,000
Closing date: April 5, 2007
Charges: Initial 5.5%, annual 2%
Commission: Initial up to 2.5%, renewal 0.5%
Tel: 020 7710 2800
Skipton Building Society
Flexible 10 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
Standard Life marketing technical manager Andrew Tully examines if there is a role for IFAs to play in the proposed pension personal accounts
House prices rose slightly in July, according to the Department for Communities and Local Government. Average house prices stood at 194,454, up from 191,016 in June. UK annual house price inflation was 6 per cent, up from 5.3 per cent the month before. Annual house price inflation in London was 7.1 per cent in July, […]
Falcon parent company Sumus has bought the network Financial Services Advice and Support Limited for a fee of up to £2m. FSAS is based in Dunfermline and has over 160 IFAs and mortgage advisers operating within 54 active appointed representative businesses. The network has 60,000 clients, with around £700m assets under advice and an estimated […]
By Chris Taylor, head of Japanese Equities, Neptune Abe, having reinforced his political position domestically, will most likely hold off any further major policy enactments until after president Trump has settled into the White House and enacted some of his own. Then a relaunch of the Three Arrows programme is likely, or Abenomics 2.0, including […]
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Trump’s announcements of tariffs on steel and aluminium have led to a much greater focus on the risks posed by his presidency We have had a rollercoaster start to 2018. January saw a rapid rise in global equities before markets succumbed to a technically driven sell-off, recovered a little, and sold off again on the […]
Legal & General has appointed Mark Jones to the role of product director of UK protection, within its insurance division. Jones joins from Sun Life. He will be responsible for the developer of both retail and group protection products, and will report into the managing director for UK protection, Steve Griffiths. Griffiths says: “We are […]
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