As you can see, over the long-term equities (shares) have done much better thangilts(UK government bonds) and cash (here the return on UK treasury bills). Gilts meanwhile beat cash. But the lead has changed hands a few times – most recently during the 1970s inflation outbreak towards ...
Most small investors have not been hit by changes to dividend tax. Most of us hold our shares within ISAs and pensions nowadays. However there are exceptions. Small business owners paid a dividend by their limited companies now pay more tax. Salary-sized dividends chew straight through today’s...
largely driven by a £6.9bn decrease in reverse repurchase agreements driven by normal business activities, a reduction in corporate lending (outside the Government's Coronavirus loan schemes), non- mortgage related retail lending and the maturity of UK Government Gilts partially offset by an incre...
Although Treasury bills have the same credit risk as gilts – they are sterling denominated unconditional obligations of the UK government – they are not classified as gilts for taxation purposes. Because of this they are covered by the taxation rules which apply to deeply discounted securities. I...
All my OEIC holdings are in accumulation units and I wonder exactly when they reinvest the dividends. Is it on the ex-dividend dates for the OEIC? If so then there is the downside of ‘dividend drag’ where cash is held for a while within the OEIC waiting to be reinvested. Could you...