Investment Insights

Discipline is all important when it comes to saving effectively for your future.

Directing an affordable amount each month straight to your Individual Savings Account, or ISA, is one way to help make sure that you’re setting aside money sustainably for your future.

Amid rising consumer and business confidence and a resurgence in company earnings, M&G Investment Directors Ritu Vohora and Ana Cuddeford discuss the European investment picture.

Talking money may be taboo in polite company, but not talking about property. The British captivation with bricks and mortar transcends status and wealth.

The UK tax man casts a wide net and income from personal investments, in terms of savings and employment income, are firmly within his reach.

The humble Individual Savings Account or ISA may be home to roughly £500 billion of personal savings in the UK, but it has been overshadowed of late. Major reforms have transformed pensions, making them much less restrictive, and new personal tax-free allowances were rolled out this April for dividend and savings income.

Money is only ever really worth what you can buy with it.

Over time, rising prices erode the value of cash. Compare, if you will, how far £10 could stretch when you were younger to what it will buy today. It’s not just the price of goods that has risen over the past decades, but also assets like property.