Are british bonds a bargain?

MANY INVESTORS regard bonds as the frumpier cousins ...

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

“Japan has been the world's financial shock absorber for a generation,” says Nigel Green of deVere Group. No longer. Two decades of ultra-low interest rates have pushed Japanese investors overseas in

Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

CHATGPT ChatGPT revealed that paying off our mortgage at 4.38% represents a post-tax return, requiring 7.3% gross from taxable investments to match it, which is roughly equivalent to stock market retu

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up