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Early in 2016, Lord Turner of Ecchinswell — chairman of the Financial Services Authority in the years before it was…

This summer I did some work for a family who have been in the whisky business for 200 years. They…

On balance, history will be kind to George Osborne’s six years as Chancellor. He stabilised an economy that was in…

Students, here is your starter for ten. What is the current funding deficit of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the…

It’s a fact of life that women save less for their old age than men do — and it’s the…

Cast your mind back 20 years, to a very different world. It’s 1997: Bill Clinton is in his second term,…

‘Telecommunications’ is not the perfect name for the transmission of data at speeds that the late Mr Alexander Graham Bell…

An intelligent and driven centrist, young yet politically wise beyond his years — and with a track-record in business too…

Blockchain is the hottest bit of jargon in the financial world and potentially the most exciting development since the invention…

Looking for something exotic, but wary of investing directly in obscure foreign or small-cap companies? Then investment trusts are your…

How would you like to celebrate your birthday each year at a five-star cottage alongside the Gleneagles golf course? Or…

Factories in the north will be shuttered up. Ports will be clogged with lines of Land Rovers and Minis completing…

The challenge of finding undervalued, publicly quoted enterprises with interesting prospects in the automotive sector is, as Matthew Lynn says,…

Giles Hargreave has been one of the UK’s top small-cap fund managers for more than 20 years, but his stock-market…

Since getting into the business of bringing shares to your attention, it has been frustrating not to have a platform…

DOB: It’s almost five years since I moved to London from Yorkshire; half a decade in which I have done…

So far, so good. Wall Street was among the keenest backers of Hillary Clinton in her doomed attempt to win…

The best investment decisions are almost always those that feel most uncomfortable at the time they are made. George Soros…

Our infrastructure is at breaking point. Most governments of the past hundred years have been able to raise their glasses…

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. And when the going is seriously tough — as it may…

 The new tax year is just a month away and changes are coming that will affect your personal finances. Some…

At first glance Europe’s skiing industry, much loved by its aficionados and by far the world’s most advanced, would seem…

Ah yes, escaping to the country. There comes a time when every Englishman wants to do it. Astonishing numbers of…

How on earth do you ‘start a bank’? It sounds like a nigh-on impossible project. Yet in the past few…

Terry Smith is in the news again. Not for being a Brexiteer — though he’s been committed to that cause…