“Improving the quality of life without borrowing from the future is the single largest investment opportunity in history.” Al Gore Increasing awareness and understanding of the impact humans are having…

When Capital Gains Tax (CGT) receipts broke records last year many commentators blamed it on disenchanted buy-to-let landlords cashing in their profits. Many buy-to-let investors are asking their financial advisers…

As the start of the new university term looms many parents and grandparents may be looking at the debts their loved ones are about to start accruing and wondering how…

There are plenty of keen readers at JH&P, and there are few better times to open a new book than by the pool or a sandy beach. So, we have…

The crowning of Boris Johnson last month and his radical government shuffle position the Conservative party further to the right and put it in even sharper contrast with Jeremy Corbyn’s…

This month 25,000 Asda staff expect to share in a £62m windfall thanks to their participation in the retailer’s sharesave scheme. Recently released figures from HMRC show that 13,330 companies operated…

“To get there, I wouldn’t start from here.”  Anon There’s no place like home When it comes to investing, people often prefer to remain close to home. This “home bias”—…

In the past month the spot price of gold has risen from $1288 to $1402 an ounce – up 9%. There are a number of reasons for that. Geopolitical uncertainty…

Tens of thousands of Americans and their families living in Britain are caught each year in a tangle of tax rules that gets ever more complex. Many may not even…

Mark Richmond-Watson is part of our fund selection team and a specialist in UK equities. A keen amateur jockey who has raced at Ascot in front of the Prince of…