Fifty years of investment fiascos

The stockmarket setback in 2022 was especially painful for investors in investment companies because many trusts also saw a sharp widening in their discount to net asset value (NAV). Starting from an

THREE YEARS OF EUPHORIA IN STOCKS AND OTHER ASSETS HAVE INVESTORS BRACING FOR TROUBLE. HERE’S WHAT TO DO IF BAD NEWS ARRIVES.

The autumn Budget was less the promised “reboot of UK capital markets” and “more a light dusting of the keyboard”, says Tim Focas in City AM. A three-year stamp duty holiday for new listings is all ve

“The difference between death and taxes is, death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” The American actor and commentator Will Rogers didn’t have to wrestle with British Isas and pensions, bu

The long run-up to the Budget gave rise to fevered and increasingly alarmist speculation about its contents. This descended into chaos as frantic lobbying by interested parties, dire warnings by exper

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