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Investors should consider shifting their focus to ‘old economy’ stocks rather than technology
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%
Shorting can improve market efficiency by providing liquidity and exposing overvalued companies
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
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