The Big Question: Which financial stocks are you loving or loathing, and why?

Richard Buxton head of UK equities, Old Mutual Global Investors   St James’s Place It has felt pretty lonely being a UK bank shareholder in recent years, but in the case of my biggest holding – Lloyds – with the shares up over 50% this year, one feels rather less like a social pariah.  The recent results demonstrated further progress in reducing bad debts, improving returns and moving towards a position of being able to resume dividend payments. With buoyant equity markets and increased savings flows, we still like Legal & General and St James’s Place, but these have also perfo...