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As a child, the very name Lloyd’s made me shudder. I am just about old enough to remember the dark…

Saving half a million pounds into a pension pot seems a goal so large and unachievable that many don’t bother.…

We shouldn’t be so smug about how rundown the Gare du Nord is — dirty, badly planned, with some of…

Do you remember the Beanie Baby crash of 1999? Chris Robinson, an actor who appeared in the TV series General…

The collapse of Carillion has reminded the public of the existence of short-sellers: stock-market participants who benefit from falling share…

We are forever being told that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to take our jobs. Is your financial advisor one…

I’ve long wanted to invest but have never known how. Buying stocks and shares or investing lump sums in blue…

There are several mantras that experienced investors use to guide themselves through the markets. ‘Sell in May and go away’…

September’s annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington DC was a strange affair. Delegates fretted about Europe, about Brexit and, given…

Wealthy investors have a particular reason to keep an anxious eye open for Philip Hammond’s autumn Budget on 22 November.…

At a recent gathering of the venerable Company of Merchant Adventurers of York, I listened to a sermon on the…

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…