[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images It hasn’t been a trouble-free journey for my Stocks and Shares ISA and SIPP in 2025. Sadly, a few of my stock holdings, such as JD Sports Fashion and Ashtead, have produced double-digit share price losses year to date. Thankfully, the disappointing returns from these dogs have been offset by the performance of some stocks that have done really well. Here’s a look at two world-class shares that have delivered substantial gains for me in 2025. Boosted by billionaire buying First up is Uber (NYSE: UBER). It’s up almost 40% this year. My returns have…
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[ad_1] Image source: Rolls-Royce plc There is – as Theresa May once told us – no such thing as a magic money tree. But Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR) shares have been a pretty good substitute for investors over the last 10 years. The stock is up 165%, which is enough to turn a £1,000 investment into £2,644. To say the path has been bumpy is an understatement, but there’s an important lesson here for investors. Down… then up Most investors know that Rolls-Royce is a highly cyclical business. Demand for air travel isn’t the same every year and the company’s revenues and…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images With the first week of June now almost over, we are racing towards the halfway point of 2025. So far, it has been a dramatic year in the stock market – and there could be more of that to come. So, ought investors simply to sit tight and do nothing? Or could this be a great year to buy UK shares? The FTSE 100 index of leading shares has hit a new all-time high and it is within spitting distance of that level again now. But 2025 has also seen a lot of volatility in…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I like investment trusts as a basis for a passive income portfolio. They offer different strategies, so we can go for income without having to research individual stocks. And the usual wide-ranging nature of their holdings means we can get excellent diversification from a single investment. My favourite is City of London Investment Trust (LSE: CTY). And I want to explain why it ticks my boxes. Checkbox 1: dividend The expected dividend yield’s a modest 4.4%, though that’s largely because the share price has done so well in the past five years. It’s still a…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE:SMT) shares appear to have boomed over the past two months. The stock’s up 16% and this means £10,000 invested then would be worth £11,600 today. That’s a great return in a very short period of time. However, this belies the volatility we’ve experienced this year. Scottish Mortgage shares slumped in early April as Donald Trump announced his trade policy. Interestingly, Scottish Mortgage stock, which primarily invests in US-listed stocks and privately-held growth companies, hasn’t recovered to its February highs. It’s currently trading 11% below these highs, while the Nasdaq —…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Elon Musk clashing with Donald Trump sent the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) share price down 15% Thursday (5 June). But I think this might be an overreaction. There’s always noise with Musk’s AI-and-robotics-company-that-just-happens-to-make-cars. And my instinct is more of the same. What’s going on? The latest news is that the CEO has had a spectacular falling out with Trump. The former criticised the latter’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ saying it would increase the US National Debt. Trump responded by saying that Musk only objected because the bill threatened to eliminate electric vehicle (EV) tax credits. And these have…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’m not the biggest fan of FTSE 100 index (tracker) funds. That’s because there are plenty of other stock market indexes that have better long-term performance track records than the Footsie. However recently, the UK stock market index has done pretty well. Here’s a look at how much an investor would have today if they’d chucked £10,000 in a Footsie tracker fund five years ago. 10% a year? There are many different FTSE 100 trackers on the market today (including index investment funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). I’m going to zoom in on the iShares…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images It’s been a torrid year for FTSE 250 bootmaker Dr Martens (LSE:DOCS). On Thursday (5 June), the company released its results for the 52 weeks ended 30 March (FY25). Compared to FY24, there was a 10% fall in revenue and a 65% drop in adjusted profit before tax (PBT). Worse, earnings per share (EPS) tanked from 7p to 0.5p. But investors were actually impressed. The group’s share price closed the day 25.8% higher. To be fair, the group’s directors have been warning all year that the results were going to be bad. But they weren’t…
[ad_1] Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Wall Street is cranking up the bond machine as U.S. homeowners — finding that buying a new house is out of reach since mortgage rates started climbing in 2022 — are instead getting home equity loans and sprucing up their current properties.Roughly $18 billion of bonds, backed by consumer loans on everything from second mortgages to loans that get repaid from future home value, were issued last year, according to data compiled by Deutsche Bank AG and Bloomberg. That’s triple the amount in…