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STS Global Income and Growth: Purchasing quality at a reduced price
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STS Global Income and Growth: Purchasing quality at a reduced price

With a combined market capitalization of over $22 trillion, the Magnificent Seven group of US mega-cap stocksAlphabet, Amazon, Apple, Met...

How to put money into private equity
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How to put money into private equity

Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a "master of the unive...

Halifax: Despite concerns about the Autumn Budget tax, UK home price growth reaches a new high for 2025
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Halifax: Despite concerns about the Autumn Budget tax, UK home price growth reaches a new high for 2025

As average UK house prices continue to reach record highs, buyers seem to have overcome their anxiety prior to the Autumn Budget, though ...

How to handle the fluctuations in the financial markets
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How to handle the fluctuations in the financial markets

He has learned the following important lessons. It's said that "the lesson of history is that the lessons of history are nev...

Though at a slower pace, investors are still withdrawing money from equity funds Where is the money going?
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Though at a slower pace, investors are still withdrawing money from equity funds Where is the money going?

This is how September's fund sectors were impacted. After the amount of net outflows into funds nearly halved in September, inves...

The age of resilience: Survivors must be the first to achieve success
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The age of resilience: Survivors must be the first to achieve success

Money is in danger. It was economist Frank Knight who initially distinguished between risk and uncertainty. He maintained that ri...

Growing concerns about inheritance taxes and sticky inflation cause equity release to jump 4%
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Growing concerns about inheritance taxes and sticky inflation cause equity release to jump 4%

Due to sticky inflation and impending changes to inheritance tax regulations, the amount of money being withdrawn through equity release ...

Savills: Over the next five years, average home prices are expected to rise by 22%
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Savills: Over the next five years, average home prices are expected to rise by 22%

Over the next five years, property prices in the UK are expected to increase by an average of 22%, with the largest increases expected in...

UK property values increase as the market stabilizes ahead of the budget, according to the countrywide HPI
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UK property values increase as the market stabilizes ahead of the budget, according to the countrywide HPI

As the market showed signs of resilience ahead of the Budget, house prices continued to rise in October. After rising by 0.5 perc...

This year's BFIA Wealth Summit will focus on investing in a time of volatility
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This year's BFIA Wealth Summit will focus on investing in a time of volatility

History may not repeat itself, but it does frequently provide a pleasing sense of symmetry. Air was hissing loudly out of the .com bubble...

Is it preferable to buy or rent a home?
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Is it preferable to buy or rent a home?

Long-term housing costs are thousands of pounds lower for mortgage borrowers than for renters, but research indicates that the ratio of h...

Zoopla: As buyers wait for the Autumn Budget, house sales decline for the first time in two years
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Zoopla: As buyers wait for the Autumn Budget, house sales decline for the first time in two years

The housing market seems to have entered an early Christmas lull, which is bad news for sellers. A market slowdown typically occu...