Uk market re-rating has not slowed down the pace of takeovers

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

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

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I wasn’t at MoneyWeek when our portfolio of investment trusts was set up in 2012, but the editor tells a funny anecdote. We are famously contrarian, so all six of the trusts originally chosen were “va

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