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Estate agency is a shrinking market
If there was ever an industry crying out to be disrupted, it was estate agency. Forever bottom of the list…
Whiskies galore!
This summer I did some work for a family who have been in the whisky business for 200 years. They…
Scrap this stamp duty spiral
On balance, history will be kind to George Osborne’s six years as Chancellor. He stabilised an economy that was in…
Ground rents are the next housing scandal
Whenever I hear someone bemoan the fact that their home has become ‘worthless’, I know someone else is about to…
Golden groves of academe
Students, here is your starter for ten. What is the current funding deficit of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the…
Pensions: the gender gap
It’s a fact of life that women save less for their old age than men do — and it’s the…
The Tigers reawaken
Cast your mind back 20 years, to a very different world. It’s 1997: Bill Clinton is in his second term,…
US shares are ripe for a fall
Signs are growing that the US bull market is running out of steam. If you invested $100 at the low…
The ultra-fast broadband race
‘Telecommunications’ is not the perfect name for the transmission of data at speeds that the late Mr Alexander Graham Bell…
Gold is still the safest haven
In times as alarming as these — with Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump waving nuclear weapons at each other…
Crypto-currency: risky as hell but worth a punt
‘I’m up 430 per cent,’ said my friend Mash, boasting about his investments in Bitcoin. I should have known then…
Can Macron deliver for investors?
An intelligent and driven centrist, young yet politically wise beyond his years — and with a track-record in business too…
Blockchain: an investor’s guide
Blockchain is the hottest bit of jargon in the financial world and potentially the most exciting development since the invention…
Far-flung flings
Looking for something exotic, but wary of investing directly in obscure foreign or small-cap companies? Then investment trusts are your…
Thank you for sharing
How would you like to celebrate your birthday each year at a five-star cottage alongside the Gleneagles golf course? Or…
Why buying housebuilders’ shares beats buying houses
Safe as ’ouses, as they say. The housing slump of 2008 seems a long time ago now. Prices across the…
Changing gear
Factories in the north will be shuttered up. Ports will be clogged with lines of Land Rovers and Minis completing…
Robin Andrews picks automotive stocks for the post-Brexit era
The challenge of finding undervalued, publicly quoted enterprises with interesting prospects in the automotive sector is, as Matthew Lynn says,…
Maximise your winners
Giles Hargreave has been one of the UK’s top small-cap fund managers for more than 20 years, but his stock-market…
Selling robo-advice just got even tougher
The boss of London’s largest UK ‘robo-advisor’ promised it was going to ‘redefine the UK investment industry’. Now five years…
Knowing when to sell
Since getting into the business of bringing shares to your attention, it has been frustrating not to have a platform…
A caviar life on a fish-finger budget
DOB: It’s almost five years since I moved to London from Yorkshire; half a decade in which I have done…
Spread your bets on Theresa’s majority
Where’s all the unpredictability in politics gone? After the hubbub about a ‘crisis of liberalism’ and the thrills of punting…
Watch out for the Trump slump
So far, so good. Wall Street was among the keenest backers of Hillary Clinton in her doomed attempt to win…
Global warnings: Perils of a new age of protectionism
Globalisation has apparently been going too fast. It is blamed for benefiting managers and owners of capital — and emerging-market…
Making the case for Japan
The best investment decisions are almost always those that feel most uncomfortable at the time they are made. George Soros…
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