Risks and rewards of peer-to-peer loans
Early in 2016, Lord Turner of Ecchinswell — chairman of the Financial Services Authority in the years before it was…
Plain vanilla – or too hot to handle?
‘Are they vanilla?’ is the first question you should ask about ETFs, or exchange-traded funds: so says veteran multi-family office…
Silver linings
Now might be a good time to add some silver to your portfolio. Silver is the poor relation of gold…
Art attack
Britain has the biggest art market in the European Union, but that market has been plagued over the years by…
Marques that touch the heart
Buying a beautiful car that speaks of a bygone era of motoring style is for many people the fulfilment of…
Fiddle fanciers
As with vintage wines, there is a finite supply of violins made before 1785 by acknowledged craftsmen such as Antonio…
First-class postage
With the exception of the venerable Stanley Gibbons, founded in 1856, most British stamp dealers are snooty about the idea…
Beware Bordelais greed
Alternative investment » Wine The world of wine investment has certainly changed since I last wrote about it for The…
Star Signs
What should I go for? Remember the power of branding. For dead politicians that means Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the two…
Rare Opportunity
What the hell are you talking about?These 17 chemical elements, with names such as neodymium, dysprosium and europium, are used…