Is it really time to pile into private equity?

If I told you that “I own an asset that pays like stocks but is stable like bonds”, you “would probably think I was… a fool”, says Nir Kaissar on Bloomberg. Yet many of the world’s “most sophisticated

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

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

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

Just Group becomes the latest company to agree to a takeover

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