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Best buy ISA pays seven times bank base rate
Leeds Building Society has consistently delivered a range of highly competitive fixed rate ISA products including its best buy 5-year product, paying 3.50%, and its 2 and 3-year ISAs paying 3.15% and 3.25% respectively.
JPMAM: Convertibles are cheap now but valuations will rebound
J.P. Morgan Asset Management says investors should invest in convertibles while they offer such value, but not compromise on quality or diversification in chasing high yields.
Barclays Stockbrokers equity ISA sales increase
Interest rates have fallen to record lows this year, and investors have to work harder to get returns. As a result, Barclays Stockbrokers has seen new ISA account openings increase significantly (up by 37%) in the 2008/9 tax year end period compared to the same time last tax year.
ISAs hit the right spots for first time savers
Saving money might be the last thing on many people's mind, especially given the low interest rate environment.
Over 65s most likely to be targeted by share fraudsters
People over 65 are more likely to be targeted by fraudsters and con artists warned the Financial Services Authority today, as it unveiled plans to help protect older people from financial scams by working in partnership with the UK's foremost charity for older people, Age Concern and Help the Aged.
Yorkshire Bank sees almost 10% increase in Cash ISA investments
Yorkshire Bank has seen an almost 10% increase in the level of investment in Cash ISAs over the past six months. The Bank, which marks its 150th anniversary this year, has also seen a £340 increase in the average balance over the same period.
Legal & General UK Alpha Trust tops the pile
Legal & General's UK Alpha Trust, managed by Richard Penny, was ranked the number one fund in the UK All Companies sector over three years to 31 March 2009.
Darling disappoints British savers
A new poll of moneysupermarket.com users reveals Brits disappointment at the lacklustre increase in ISA limits.
TD customers change tack amid share price fluctuations
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "TD Waterhouse customers traded heavily this week, registering an impressive 53% more trades than last week.
Top performing Cash ISAs revealed
Cash ISAs are many savers' first port of call when it comes to creating a nest egg, but in a turbulent year just who has reigned supreme, offering the best rate of return to savers?
Beware green shoots
"Macro and corporate news flow remains generally very bleak", say Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg, managers of the European Selected Opportunities Fund and the SICAV Continental European Fund.
Opportunities abound for the shrewd high yield investor
The European high yield market has been as volatile as the equity markets with investors trying to work out the benefit of the stimulus packages from the US, Europe and the rest of the world.
As India goes to the polls, growth outlook remains strong
With India's fifteenth general election underway, investors should expect the stock market to remain volatile until the results are announced next month.
Budget gives with one hand and takes away with the other
There was good and bad news for savers and investors in today's Budget, with positive measures introduced for ISA savers and parents of disabled children, while high earners' ability to receive top-rate tax relief on their pension contributions has been curtailed.
Nationwide welcomes ISA limit expansion
Having called on the Chancellor to raise the ISA limit, Nationwide Building Society welcomes the announcement in today's Budget that savers will be able to deposit £10,200 - an increase of £3,000 - into their ISA this year.