The bust in private equity

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

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

A five-year investment return of 25% looks miserable compared with the 71% return of the MSCI All Country World index, so why does Personal Assets Trust (LSE: PNL) have £1.6bn of assets and trade at a

Don’t rock the boat. Don’t stick your neck out. Don’t blow your own trumpet. These are all lessons Europeans absorb early, while the US economy runs on exuberance, enterprise and risk-taking. A tellin

The Old City’s “Buy British” campaign will deliver higher fees and sub-par returns

Trade tariffs, the Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine crises are all issues F&C’s Paul Niven takes in his stride