Good afternoon Community members!
We’re kicking off regular updates, to help you get a better idea of what we’re doing as a business.
This is the first of what will be regular updates from us to you, covering what’s happening at InvestEngine, and what our investment experts are looking out for in the weeks ahead.
What’s new at InvestEngine?
Here are some of the latest developments we’ve been working on as a team.
We’re in a period where we’re working on quite a lot behind the scenes, but can’t share details on everything just yet. We know that’s frustrating.
But here are some big (and small) changes to give you an idea of what we’ve been up to.
What’s new
We’ve hired a new Head of Customer Experience. Hind Ali has joined us and is fully focused on improving the support our customers receive. We also made additions across operations, marketing and design.
We’ve built a new internal payments dashboard. This is an under-the-hood thing, but a meaningful one within the business, with new production alerts for response time and error rates.
We’re aware of the current issues with payment times. This step helps to improve our monitoring, and should speed up detection & response times for payment issues in critical customer deposit & withdrawal journeys.
In-app messages are live. A smaller one, but a useful addition. You can now receive messages directly in the app - so we don’t have to rely on email for timely, useful comms.
Market watch & ETFs of the week
Here are some key financial events to watch this week
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Fed watch (Tue 14 to Thu 16 Jul): Fed Chair Warsh testimony, Fed Williams, Fed Logan and the Fed Beige Book are all worth watching for clues on inflation, growth and the path for US rates.
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UK GDP (Thu 16 Jul): Monthly UK GDP is the key domestic growth print to watch and will feed into the UK rates / recession-risk conversation.
The market plot twist
This week’s theme is diversification over market timing. A useful LinkedIn chart doing the rounds shows how surprising 2026 has been so far: the Mag 7 is flat year-to-date, while US equities are still up, US small caps have done better, and emerging markets and Japan have led many major regions.
Would you have believed at the start of the year that the Mag 7 would be flat, but US equities, US small caps, emerging markets and Japan would all be positive? It’s a good reminder that turning points are hard to call.
Also, for a lot of investors, diversification is often a better starting point than trying to chase the part of the market that worked last year.
Trending ETFs: Most bought ETFs on InvestEngine in 2026 so far — ranked by net buys between 1 January and 30 June:
The boring (but important) stuff
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