Buffett surprises markets after stepping down as ceo after 60 years at the helm

Warren Buffett’s conglomerate has underperformed the S&P 500 since the legendary investor announced his retirement

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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

In 2005, BP was No. 2 on the Fortune Global 500 and was carving out a role as an early adapter to the green energy transition. Now there’s speculation about whether the struggling $85 billion supermajor will survive as a freestanding company.

Rich pickings: Many in the City of London are fretting about the lack of inward investment, but if there is one financial British product North Americans cannot get enough of it’s pensions, says Liam