Sam Benstead

May 3, 2024 | ii.co.uk | Kyle Caldwell |Alex Watts |Sam Benstead |Andrew Pitts

Invest to reflect your personal values, for a monthly flat fee. Our impartial insight can help you make the right choice for you. Please remember, investment value can go up or down and you could get back less than you invest. The value of international investments may be affected by currency fluctuations which might reduce their value in sterling. Investing for good is not just straightforward with ii, it is ACE.

Apr 19, 2024 | ii.co.uk | Sam Benstead

Welcome to interactive investor’s ‘Bond Watch’ series, covering the latest market and economic news – as well as analysis – that is relevant to bond investors.              Our goal is to make the notoriously complicated world of bond investing simpler, by analysing the week’s most important news and distilling it into a short, useful and accessible article for DIY investors.

Apr 18, 2024 | ii.co.uk | Sam Benstead

With stocks near all-time highs, and inflation gradually returning to target, it is no wonder fund managers are feeling bullish. Bank of America’s latest survey of professional investors found that they were at their most optimistic on the outlook for markets since January 2022, with the April poll showing the largest jump in optimism about global economic growth in nearly four years.

Apr 17, 2024 | ii.co.uk | Sam Benstead

The first week of the new ISA allowance always sees a flurry of investment activity, as investors take advantage of the new £20,000 allowance.  In fact, half of interactive investor’s customers contributing to their ISA in the first two days of the new tax year had already used their full £20,000 annual allowance.

Apr 12, 2024 | ii.co.uk | Sam Benstead

Investment trusts, due to their closed-ended structure, offer investors the chance of picking up a potential bargain. Such an opportunity arises when a trust’s share price is lower than the underlying investments held by the trust (the net asset value, or NAV).    However, a trust trading on a discount to NAV is not necessarily a buying opportunity.