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Doug Bamford and Fenn Martin at work on the terra cotta wall which depicts the history of steelmaking in Sydney, Cape Breton. (Jacob Mailman Photo) For more than 20 years, Doug Bamford has wanted to make a large-scale ceramic wall mural. Now he's ...

Financial planner Martin Bamford reveals his predictions for dividend payments in 2013. New figures from Capita show that dividend payments from UK companies fell in the first quarter of 2013. The latest Capita Dividend Monitor report shows the ...

One of the lesser but recurring characters in The Simpsons, my favourite animated TV show, is Helen Lovejoy. Wife of Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Helen has the catchphrase (often used in times of civic crisis), Will someone please think of the ...

| News - Comment now Print Email a Friend Your email: * Friend's email: * Send Martin Bamford, managing director of Informed Choice and founder of IC Direct Related Articles IC Direct, a new online platform offering funds that do not have any ...

Providing an appraisal of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is unlikely to win me any friends. This is because, on balance, I think it has done a reasonably good job. Sure, a lot of what it has done during the past 15 years could have been ...

Even as an ardent supporter of the RDR, the latest cost revelations from the FSA are beyond outrageous.For a relatively simple set of industry improvements to cost an eye-watering £2.6bn over a period of five years is enough to make George Osborne ...

I pull a white Aston Martin Vantage S roadster out of a Manhattan garage and the rumble of the V-8 reverberates, vibrant and animalistic, down the crowded street. I get less than a block before a woman leans out of her SUV and asks, Is it a six ...

Financial Conduct Authority chief executive designate Martin Wheatley has admitted the regulator's expanding remit will inevitably lead to higher industry costs. Speaking at a briefing on the FCA in Canary Wharf last week, Wheatley said the ...

Informed Choice has unveiled the charging structure for its execution-only platform, IC Direct, which will be powered by Fidelity FundsNetwork. The platform will charge a flat fee of 0.45% on assets per annum. A £45 annual account fee will apply ...