History shows that the most successful ISA investors are those ‘early birds’ who invest early in the tax year. Over time, they tend to achieve the greatest capital gains and the highest dividends, as their money is working for them for longer. With the new fiscal period around the corner, I’m looking at ways that an individual could maximise their passive income in 2025/26. Here’s one strategy for investors to consider. Choosing ISAs It’s fair to say that most of us have heard of the Stocks and Shares ISA. Acccording to NatWest, 60% of Brits are aware of these tax-efficient…
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Image source: Getty Images I’ve long wished that SpaceX was available as a stock to buy. Alas, the space exploration giant prefers to remain private as it works towards making humans a multi-planetary species. However, UK investors can get exposure to SpaceX through investment trusts. One that I think is worth considering for a growth portfolio is Schiehallion Fund (LSE: MNTN), whose top holding is SpaceX. The quirky-sounding fund is named after the Schiehallion mountain in Scotland and currently has a $922m market-cap. It’s managed by Baillie Gifford, the asset manager best known for running Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Unlike…
People who live longer, happier lives tend to have some commonalities: strong social connections, healthier diets, a positive attitude.They also have high levels of a specific personality trait: conscientiousness.Of the big five personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism — conscientiousness, or how organized and disciplined you are, is the most related to longevity, David Watson, a former professor of personality psychology at the University of Notre Dame, told CNBC Make It.This is likely because people with high degrees of conscientiousness are better at taking care of themselves. They tend to drink alcohol in moderation and eat more…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.AP Møller-Maersk has warned that plans for a shipping emissions trading scheme intended to fix the price gap between fossil fuels and green energy would only encourage the sector’s use of LNG.The measures will be discussed at crunch talks held by the UN’s International Maritime Organization next month. Plans to place an economic cost on shipping pollution have split the industry into opposing camps, with some supporting a complex credit trading scheme over a flat levy on each tonne of emissions.The Danish…
(Bloomberg) — Victor Khosla, the founder of Strategic Value Partners LLC, is looking to hire amid one of the most promising environments for opportunistic credit investors in the last 10 years. Most Read from Bloomberg “For investors like SVP, if you take out the first six months of Covid, there’s never been such a rich vein of opportunities over the last decade in an economy that’s not in a recession,” Khosla said in an interview. Debt markets are facing a “reckoning” after a period of complacency, he said in a separate Bloomberg Television interview on Monday. The money manager is…
Today the European Commission released the Steel and Metals Action Plan, part of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) framework that the ICCT wrote about a few weeks ago. The automotive sector is a major consumer of steel in the European Union and steel is a primary contributor to the emissions of producing vehicles. Thus, the Steel and Metals Action Plan could substantially support the decarbonization of the automotive sector, and as we’ll outline here, it can serve as a lead market to support the transition of the steel sector. Certain aspects of the Plan warrant careful consideration. A recent ICCT…
Micha Pawlitzki | The Image Bank | Getty Images The nuclear industry is racing to launch advanced small reactors by the early 2030s, aiming to meet the deep-pocketed technology sector’s growing need for electricity to fuel artificial intelligence.The world has relied largely on the same pressurized-water reactor technology for the past 70 years, but those plants have proven incredibly expensive to build in the U.S. in the 21st century.The first new nuclear plant completed in decades, reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle in Georgia, infamously cost about $18 billion more than expected and opened seven years behind schedule. Each…
The metals industry is a subsector of basic materials. It includes companies that:Mine, process, or invest in the extraction of precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.Mine and process industrial metals such as copper, iron ore, and aluminum ore (bauxite).Convert raw metal materials such as iron ore into more valuable metal products such as steel.There’s a blurred line between this sector and mining. Some metals companies operate an integrated mining business, while others don’t. Keep reading for a closer look at this subgroup of the basic materials sector and some of the best metals stocks to invest in.…
As the Trump administration calls federal employees back into the office, U.S. DOT Secretary Sean Duffy will provide free parking at the agency’s headquarters in a dense corner of Washington, a policy that is known to encourage driving by employees who otherwise would take transit — and inflict more congestion, emissions, and traffic violence on surrounding communities.Previously, workers paid $155 a month to park at the U.S. DOT’s Southeast Washington offices — and spaces were prioritized for people with disabilities, as well as carpoolers and those who need cars to perform their job functions. Now, all of the spaces will…
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a rally in advance of the New Hampshire presidential primary election in Rochester, New Hampshire, U.S., January 21, 2024. Mike Segar | ReutersPresident Donald Trump in an interview with NBC News on Saturday that he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat where attack plans were inadvertently divulged to a journalist ahead of a military strike, and later added he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices due to new tariffs.In the wide-ranging interview, Trump also discussed his commitment to annexing Greenland and reiterated that a military option was not…