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 …

All of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap are down for the year. Except for one, VeChain. That digital currency has gained more than 28 percent since January 1, which one analyst says is thanks to big-name partnerships and a unique structure that incentivizes investors not to sell.

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 …