In a recent post called ISA allowances history and why adding the maximum makes sense, we looked at the history of ISA allowances. Today I want to give you more detail and explain why we believe ISAs are one of the UK’s best-kept secrets. There's no doubt that they can play a major part in providing you with a secure future and comfortable retirement.

In this interview Bob describes how he became an ISACO client, what's involved and outlines his experience so far - including the 63% after tax gain he made in 19 months.

The majority of people looking for investment advice in the UK rely on a financial adviser.

Unfortunately, many of them don't appreciate some of the flaws still evident in the investment industry. In this post, we'll look at four of the biggest investment problems that consumers can still face.

We are sometimes asked why our annual investment target is 12-15% growth. In short, we set this goal because of our track record of outperforming the stock market. This means we can have a higher investment target than traditional financial advisers.

If you are an investor, you owe it to yourself to know about the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), as it's a key part of the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) consumer protection strategy.

The Retail Distribution Review aims to establish a resilient, effective and attractive retail investment market. This means that you'll be able to have more confidence and trust in the retirement & investment planning advice you receive.

In this post, I'd like to take you through the likely performance of financial or investment adviser over a ten year time span. We'll then compare this to ISACO. We'll use an investor with a £250,000 ISA and SIPP portfolio as an example.

My name is Paul Sutherland, I'm ISACO's Managing Director and a regular contributor to this blog. In this post, I wanted to share my personal experience of Shadow Investing over the last eleven years*.

I have been Shadow Investing my brother Stephen since the year 2000. Stephen Sutherland is ISACO's Chief Investment Strategist and bestselling author of Liquid Millionaire. Stephen is one of the UK's leading growth fund investors and a regular commentator on business television, radio, personal finance newspapers, magazines and other investment media.

Today I want to share with you an overview of historic ISA allowances. This is important as it shows the true potential of what’s possible when investing in ISAs. ISA history also ties in very nicely with Tip #7, ‘Invest the Max’ from our Top 10 Tips for Successful ISA Investing

Today I would like to share a true but shocking statistic with you. Did you know that 80-90% of financial advisers underperform the stock market. This means that most advisers will achieve less than the FTSE 100’s growth.

This underperformance by advisers can have serious consequences for investors. Over the last twelve years, if you’d been taking your guidance from an adviser, your performance will probably be either in line with the FTSE 100’s 19.6% cumulative loss or possibly worse.

One of the questions we are most often asked by potential investors is a simple one - 'is now a good time to invest?'.

In a recent edition of our monthly premium client newsletter The Big Picture, Stephen Sutherland, our Chief Investment Strategist, wrote:

“My take is and has been for some time now that the market over the next decade will outperform. There are numerous facts and statistics that point to the likelihood of outperformance and the behaviour of the market over the last three years gives me even more reasons to believe a stock market boom may have already begun. My belief is the ‘boom period’ started back in 2009.”