The film industry is glamorous, award-winning and lucrative. Investment opportunities are available for those who want to be a part of the industry; but recent events and press stories of those with negative experiences, or illegal tax avoidance schemes, are overshadowing the huge positives and (perfectly legal) financial gains one can enjoy by investing in...
Since the end of the Second World War, it has become commonplace for British people to holiday abroad. A foreign holiday is often most people’s first experience of dealing with “foreign exchange” as they get their holiday money converted into the currency of the land that they’ll be visiting.
First manufactured in 1961, the E-Type Jaguar was the epitome of upper class British manufacturing and private car ownership, drawing attention from the rich and famous.
While the surging price of Petrol is a bane to anyone with a vehicle, the corresponding surge in oil stocks has been a boon to investors who got in at the right time. Like gold, the price of oil has risen dramatically in the last decade.
The gold price broke through the $1600 per ounce mark recently, and most financial advisors are still very bullish on the metal. While many advisors forecast a huge rise in its value over the next year or two, their expectations differ. Some think it will rise to $2,000 by year end, while others expect it...
In the never-ending drive to make personal pension planning as attractive to the masses as possible, the UK government created a fresh variation of the personal pension plan.
In a course of just a few years, the world investment landscape has witnessed a massive sea change. Previously unthinkable, the stock markets of small and risky emerging economies have soared, and at times even exceeded the gains secured in the U.S. and the UK, shocking many investors and experts alike. It’s far from straightforward,...
If you have ever watched the news on television, it is certain that you will have heard of the FTSE and be aware that it is some sort of measure as to how the stock market in London is performing, or failing to perform. But what exactly is the FTSE and what does the number mean?
Buying property abroad has long been an ambition for many investors, encouraged by cheap property prices, romantic notions of retirement abroad or simply a home away from home in sunnier climes.
At the height of the housing crash of 2008/9, buy-to-let investors were vilified for being partly to blame for the disastrous crash in the property market after contributing to rampant house inflation.