The early autumn stock market storms seem to have abated for now — but how much damage has been done? Few of us have the time to keep up with every investment on a daily basis, but periodic checks can give us a good idea of the direction things are …

The recent sharp sell-off in shares worldwide has unnerved many UK investors – and half expect the market downturn to persist until the end of the tax year. This is according to new research by financial services firm Willis Owen, which also found that 17 per cent of UK investors expect …

As a novice investor in Peps and pensions in the Nineties most of my money went into UK and European funds with a little in emerging markets. Financial advisers often argued there weren’t any decent American funds, so I didn’t buy any. That’s still the case for many investors. According …