New bitcoin etfs blow up a bubble

In 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sternly warned that “crypto-assets have no intrinsic value” and that investors in them “should therefore be prepared to lose all the value they have put

Discover the top recent performers as thematic products come to the fore

The world has always been an unpredictable place for investors, and it has become more so over the past five years. Digitisation is partly to blame. News can travel from one side of the planet to anot

This year’s “unusually good run” for beleaguered British shares shows “there is life in the old dog yet”, says Katie Martin in the Financial Times. True, the FTSE 100’s 10% year-to-date gain isn’t sen

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

The precious metal benefits from many of the same drivers as bullion