The bust in private equity

The real-estate investment trust (Reit) segment of the UK equity market has been on life support for much of the past five years and it’s easy to understand why investors have decided to give the sect

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

This trust offers exposure to uncorrelated strategies and some of the world’s most exciting private companies

Since listing in 2013 Greencoat UK Wind (LSE: UKW) has grown to become one of the UK’s largest investment trusts. At one point, its net asset value (NAV) reached almost £4bn. Yet the trust has generat

The apologists for the relentless expansion in the size and cost of Britain’s public-sector debt like to point out that other major developed economies face a similar predicament. Although government

Central banks are back in easing mode, but the descent down the interest-rate mountain is proving arduous and slow. The US Federal Reserve lowered US rates by a quarter of a percentage point at this m