What would you do?

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

Does financial planning never get to the top of your to-do list? Research by Interactive Investor found that 60% of women feel overwhelmed by the thought of saving and investing for the future. But it

Prices rises have been slower than normal in recent years

“Sire… worse than a crime, you have committed an error,” said Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. A crime is whatever the feds say it is. Often not what you think it ought to be. But an error is d

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

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