This year established stock markets have continued to soar to new record highs or thereabouts – stretching valuations as they tick higher. But history teaches us that bull runs never last forever and eventually markets will plunge into a bear territory, or even worse face a full-on crash.  When exactly …

Income investing is not just for those who wish to draw a cash return on their portfolio, reinvested dividends are also a great way to build solid growth over time. If you had invested £100 in the UK stock market in 1945 it would have been worth £179,695 by 2015 …

Just as young children eagerly anticipate the arrival of a jolly red and white suited man delivering gifts in December, investors also wait in hope for a Santa Rally. And the long-standing superstition that stock markets bounce in the run-up to Christmas has a fair amount of statistical backing, despite …