The investment industry is littered with jargon: the use of numerous acronyms when we describe fees is particularly irritating to many – OCF, TER, AMC. No wonder investors are confused and the Financial Conduct Authority – the investment industry ‘watchdog’ – has spent the past five years or so looking …

Buying shares when they look cheap in the hope they’ll be worth more later may seem like one of the most basic tenets of investing. But this strategy, known as value investing, isn’t the only way to make money – and for several years it certainly hasn’t been the most …

One of the country’s top fund managers, dubbed by some financial experts as ‘son of Neil Woodford’, insists his ‘well-tested investment process’ will eventually come good. The claim, made by Mark Barnett of major investment house Invesco, comes as the latest performance statistics show he is delivering returns for fund …