The Treasury-backed bank has increased rates on some of its fixed-rate savings accounts. Are they a good place to lock your money away?

Gifts made less than seven years before death may be liable for inheritance tax under the seven-year rule – but how the rule is applied is less well known ...

Digital challenger bank Starling is offering new customers a 5% interest rate on its easy-access savings account. How does it ...

Equity release is one way of funding later life if you’re facing a retirement shortfall – but there are alternatives which ...

Investment trusts have been around since 1868, with all the ups and downs that implies. They can surely help investors ...

Three lesser-known emerging market stocks, as picked by Chris Tennant, co-portfolio manager of Fidelity Emerging Markets.

Cash is attractive again, offering rates of up to 5%, but the right choice between cash and shares rests on when you will ...

Shares in UK housebuilders have languished so far this year, but news of a revived government Help to Buy scheme appears to ...

Being a landlord and investing in the stock market are two popular ways of growing your money in the long-term – but which ...

It turns out that the UK’s unique productivity puzzle may not have been so much of a puzzle all along – but does it matter?

The growing cost of the state pension triple lock is unsustainable and a discussion about changing it is overdue, says ...

With Personal Assets Trust (LSE: PNL), Capital Gearing (LSE: CGT) and Ruffer (LSE: RICA) all losing value after inflation, ...