Skandia Investment Management
Alternative Investments Fund
Type: Oeic fund of funds
Aim: Growth by investing in a portfolio of alternative investment funds
Minimum investment: Lump sum £1,000, monthly £50
Investment split: 10% water, 10% timber, 10% commodities, 10% infrastructure, 10% precious metals, 10% fund of hedge fund replacement strategy, 10% equity market neutral 10% currency, 10% volatility 10% global macro
Charges: Initial 5%, annual 1.5%
Commission: Initial 3.5%, renewal 0.5%
Tel: 020 7220 3531
John Charcol has launched its own range of large loan two-year tracker mortgages.
Norwich Union Healthcare is starting an individual income protection product for the intermediary sales channel. Income protection solutions offers guaranteed and reviewable rates and flexibility of options.
Home Funding chief executive Tony Ward warns that the mortgage market is going to quickly fall further if the Treasury’s mortgage finance working group does not come up with a solution.
Swiss Re technical manager Ron Wheatcroft won the outstanding achievement award at last night’s Protection Review awards.
Despite the sharp drop in housebuilders following the Brexit result, valuations in the highly illiquid market are still at elevated levels. And whilst some investors may take comfort from superficially low price/earnings multiples, are earnings sustainable over the long term, asks Holly Cassell, Assistant Manager of the Neptune UK Mid Cap Fund. Click here to […]
News and expert analysis straight to your inbox
Sign up
You have to do hard things to be successful in life. The things no one else does. Why? Life coaches will tell you those are the things that define you; the things that make the difference between existing and living. This may well be true but if that does not float your boat, then American […]
Only a quarter of women are shopping around for their retirement income, according to national IFA LEBC. Customers of LEBC pension advice business The Retirement Adviser are far more likely to use its whole of market service to find the best retirement income solution if they are male. LEBC says the proportion of women using […]
A weekly account of the curious goings-on in the world of financial services A game of Brexit MonopolyLast week, in a foreign policy speech, Theresa May said Brexit negotiations were in their “endgame”. WSJ thinks this is highly unlikely, having heard that not even a quarter of European law has been rolled over yet. Wingate […]
Comments