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19 th April 2021 8:59 am Good morning and welcome to your Morning Briefing for Monday, 19 April, 2021. To get this in your inbox every morning click here. Positive disruption? Vanguard has entered the financial advice market. We knew it was on the cards but now the moment has arrived. Vanguard Personal Financial Planning is aimed at UK retirement savers with more than £50,000 invested on the firm’s platform. It will have an “all-in cost” of 0.79 per cent, which will include the advice...

VIDEO: Where can investors find reliable dividends to meet their income investing needs? Killik & Co's Rachel Winter has some ideas

My father is aged 89 and approaching 90 this month. Can you please tell me if he is too old to invest in shares? Tanya Jefferies, of This is Money, replies: He is not too old, but there is more to it than that. We asked stockbroker Killik & Co to explain what to consider when investing at that age, and the contingency plans your father should put in place if he becomes unable to handle his own affairs. My father is going on 90 now so is he too old to put money in shares? (Stock image) Rachel W...

What questions are asked most often by share investors?  Rachel Winter, associate investment director at stockbroker Killik & Co, tells us and provides the answers. 1. How much money will I make? If only it was possible to give an exact answer to this question. The answer depends on three things: the level of risk you are taking, the performance of the overall market, and the performance of the investments in your portfolio. The more risk you take, the more return you can expect to make over l...

BP has pledged it will restart share buybacks soon after paying down its debt mountain earlier than expected. The oil giant expects its debts to have shrunk by almost $4billion (£2.8billion) in the first quarter after a very strong performance thanks to rising oil prices. BP also received billions in proceeds from business disposals earlier than expected.   As it now expects to hit its net debt target of $35billion (£25billion) in the first quarter, BP said it was committed to returning at ...

BP to hit $35bn net debt target a year early after flurry of disposals BP expects sale proceeds in 2021 to be at the top of its existing $4bn to $6bn range. (Getty Images) BP expects to reach its $35bn net debt target in the first quarter of 2021, the oil major said this morning. The forecast follows earlier-than-expected proceeds from disposals and a “very strong quarter”. The company, which had a debt pile of $39bn at the end of 2020, had previously expected to reduce its...

Provided by Dow Jones By Sarah McFarlane LONDON -- Oil giant BP PLC said it had a solid start to the year, aided by higher energy prices and strong results from its trading division, giving the first indication that major oil companies are on the road to recovery after pandemic-induced losses across the industry last year. The company said Tuesday it was on track to lower net debt to $35 billion in the first quarter, a level it has said could trigger share buyback...

BP expects to hit its $35billion debt target nearly a year ahead of schedule thanks to proceeds from a flurry of deals, moving forward its timeline for

The £16bn Scottish Mortgage investment trust has fallen by more than 25% in the last three weeks Tech and growth stocks have been hit by soaring US government bond yields and inflation fears However SMT remains up 80% over the past 12 months thanks to its stellar performance in 2020 and until mid-February this year  It is trading on a 2.75% discount, compared to a 12-month average 0.5% premium 

People aged 40 to 59 are referred to as the sandwich generation because they are likely to have responsibilities towards both their children and elderly parents.