Infrastructure funds show cracks

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t

VEHICLES WHOSE DIVIDEND PAYOUTS HAVE BEATEN RISING PRICES

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

UK equities are having their time in the sun. The FTSE 100 recently hit an all-time high of 9,000, driven by a broad recovery in equity prices. To put it another way, the rally wasn’t just driven by a

If I told you that “I own an asset that pays like stocks but is stable like bonds”, you “would probably think I was… a fool”, says Nir Kaissar on Bloomberg. Yet many of the world’s “most sophisticated