Image source: Getty Images A Stocks and Shares ISA is a terrific way to build a pot of wealth to generate a long-term passive income for retirement. The ISA wrapper shields all capital gains and dividend income from tax, which means every pound is free to grow without HMRC taking a slice. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information purposes only. It is not intended to be, neither does it constitute, any form of tax advice. Readers are responsible for…
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Image source: Getty Images As of 20 November 2025, the FTSE 100 boasts seven stocks that offer a 6% dividend yield or higher. In this article, I give a brief run-through to each, and highlight my pick of the bunch. Seven of the best The seventh-largest yield comes courtesy of real estate investment trust Londonmetric Property at 6.42%. This dividend has been one of the strongest growers with a five-year growth rate of 7.75% and a 10-year growth rate of 5.71%. Our sixth entrant is Land Securities Group with a dividend yield of 6.81%. Another real estate trust, this stock…
Image source: Getty Images s it possible to become a Stocks and Shares ISA millionaire? Here are 4,560 people who’ve done it Having a Stocks and Shares ISA worth more than £1m is not impossible, based on recent figures from HMRC. According to a freedom of information request, 4,560 individuals have reached the milestone. Having said that, the data is a few years out of date. It relates to April 2022, so I suspect the actual number is a little higher. The amount that can be invested each year has been steadily increasing. When the product was launched on 6…
This week, we’re joined by Olivia Plotnick, founder of Wai Social in Shanghai. She spent the summer visiting more than 30 Chinese cities to experience different retail, the impacts of high speed rail, and the social e-commerce ecosystem. And she learned that competition has made Chinese retail sharper, the transportation space is becoming saturated with electric vehicle, and there is such a thing as “emotional consumption.”To listen, click the player below. Or read the full transcript (with typos!) here. Below the player is a crucial excerpt.Partially edited section:Jeff Wood: When I took the train from Beijing to Taiyuan, I noticed that on…
Image source: Getty Images According to the latest (20 November) forecast of analysts, the Rolls-Royce Holdings share price will grow by 16.4% over the next 12 months. By the stock’s own recent standards, this would be a little disappointing. After all, over the past three years ended 31 October, it’s risen by 175% (2023), 149% (2024) and 118% (2025). But those who don’t want to invest in the aerospace and defence group could consider taking a stake in these three stocks. The consensus view of analysts is for each of them to grow faster than Rolls-Royce. Let’s take a closer…
Image source: Getty Images After a powerful move higher, major stock markets indexes such as the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500 are experiencing a bit of a wobble. In the last few weeks, both of them have fallen about 4%. Stressed about the current volatility in the markets? Here are three tips to get through it. Don’t look at your portfolio so much At times like this, I tend to look at my portfolio a lot less (I’ve hardly checked my portfolio balances at all in recent weeks). I find this takes away a lot of investing stress. Having…
Image source: Getty Images Last Boxing Day, I showed my 12-year-old nephew a list of FTSE 100 stocks and asked him to pick the one that he thought would perform the best in 2025. After giving the matter a lot of thought, he came up with Coca-Cola HBC (LSE:CCH). His reasons? Well, nearly all of his friends like Coke, the drink’s available in every supermarket and the company must have loads of money because it’s always advertising on TV. At the time, I thought this sounded pretty sensible. My selection? I went for RELX (LSE:REL). Admittedly, the global provider of…
Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) share price jumped 5% yesterday (20 November). The driver was the company’s third-quarter (Q3) earnings, which were absolutely magnificent. Looking ahead, Wall Street analysts see the chip stock going much higher as the AI revolution gains momemtum. Here’s a look at some of the latest share price forecasts. Blockbuster earnings Nvidia’s Q3 earnings, for the three months to 26 October, showed that demand for its AI computing hardware is sky-high right now. For the period, revenue was up 62% year on year to $57bn (versus $54.8bn expected). Meanwhile data centre revenue was up 66% to $51.2bn (versus…
Image source: Getty Images Lloyds‘ shares (LSE:LLOY) have quietly delivered a far stronger return than many expected. As a result, a £10,000 investment five years ago now standing at roughly £24,600. That outperformance reflects a combination of resilient earnings, tighter cost discipline and, crucially, an overly pessimistic set of base-case assumptions that surrounded the bank earlier in the cycle. Markets spent years pricing in heavy credit impairments as the UK entered successive periods of economic uncertainty. Yet actual defaults remained far lower than the models suggested. This was supported by stable employment, a resilient UK consumer, and households deleveraging more…
Image source: Getty Images Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock’s up 810% over the past five years. Coupled with a modest depreciation of the pound versus the dollar, £10,000 invested in Palantir in late November 2020 is now worth £95,000. To anyone who made that investment, kudos! So why did that happen and what might happen now? Dominance in software, data, and AI Palantir’s surge over the past five years is partially rooted in an operational shift. The company turned what was once a bespoke, services-heavy government contractor into a scalable, high-margin software platform built around its products Gotham, Foundry and Apollo. That…