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Vaccines prevent the spread of disease and protect people from serious illnesses. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the last week of April as “world immunisation week”, during which i

We’re now halfway through the decade that began with Covid, which was succeeded by a surge in the cost of living. Geopolitical turmoil has also buffeted markets in recent years. This year, however, wa

More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

Andrew Van Sickle: Peter, your fund is among relatively few investing solely in a collection of investment trusts (ITs). How did you come to set it up? Peter Walls: My background is entirely in the wo

Investors are rightly nervous when a well-regarded fund manager retires. The departure of Bruce Stout from the £1.9bn Murray International (LSE: MYI) in June last year after 20 years was no exception.

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