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As with vintage wines, there is a finite supply of violins made before 1785 by acknowledged craftsmen such as Antonio…

There is a curious pleasure to be had watching stocks plummet — as long as you don’t own them. It’s…

At a party in London’s St James’s on election night, the many senior business figures present were ecstatic. We’d had…

Well, few saw that coming. After a drearily overlong campaign, election night managed to surprise us after all. This election…

It was the kind of megadeal that sets pulses racing in the City. When in early April the oil giant…

The small oil and gas company sector, consisting chiefly of AIM-quoted companies, has been massacred over the past few years,…

George Osborne, just before the election, waved his golden wand to give the over-55s access to their pension cash at…

‘Pensions are finished. I don’t think they have a future.’ Thus Michael Johnson, the Centre for Policy Studies expert on…

Interviewing James Anderson is a lot more refreshing than grilling your average fund manager, as befits a man who runs…

Why would any female graduate ever want to work on a City trading floor? Lots do, of course, and very…

With the exception of the venerable Stanley Gibbons, founded in 1856, most British stamp dealers are snooty about the idea…

‘So, what’s your election prediction?’ It’s a perfectly reasonable question, but one which has lately stumped me. There’s just no…

Political betting is serious business these days. About £10 million’s worth of bets were placed on the 2010 election; this year the…

You’ve decided to go it alone and make your own investment decisions. You’ve worked out how much you can afford…

It’s quite rare to come across successful professionals lobbing grenades at the industry that has brought them fame and fortune.…

Six years ago, after reducing short-term interest rates nearly to zero, the Bank of England started its emergency policy of…

A couple of years ago, a bookseller sent me ‘a little gem of a book’, namely The Making of the…

Joining the ‘sharing economy’ is a little bit like a hotly anticipated first date. It could end in tears, a…

‘There’s definitely more money than talent out there.’ That’s the view of one seasoned London tech investor, and it presents…

Your first pay packet, in your first ‘proper’ job, almost seems like a miracle. So much money, coming straight into…

Alternative investment » Wine The world of wine investment has certainly changed since I last wrote about it for The…

‘Better to be a pirate than join the navy’: the words of Apple founder Steve Jobs and an appropriate motto…

Hard-pressed savers in search of decent rates of return are increasingly turning to the world of ‘alternative finance’. In the…

Tucked into an office above a Sainsbury’s Local in a quiet street in York, the GLG Japan Core Alpha team…

By any measure, the listing of Alibaba Group on the New York Stock Exchange in September was a whopper. It…

Bonds are meant to be boring. Yet lately the world’s most unexciting asset class has been anything but. At the…