When should you give an underperforming fund manager the boot?

There has been a recent uptick in some geographies for actively-managed portfolios

If you’ve ever put cash into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), it is likely to have been a passive investment: a fund that tracks a particular stockmarket index up and down, rather than actively trying t

Shorting can improve market efficiency by providing liquidity and exposing overvalued companies

Investors should consider shifting their focus to ‘old economy’ stocks rather than technology

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

Income has historically been one of the best-performing investment strategies. The average annualised return of dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 between 1973 and 2024 was 9.2%, compared with 4.3%