Commentary

Mervyn King blames globalisation for the credit crisis, but that hardly gets him or us off the hook.

UK investors have few options if they want to invest in big and stable consumer companies. Now they’ve even fewer.

All the major UK house price predictions for 2010 in one spot. This way, they can all be wrong in the same boat!

We need banks to make billions to repair the economy. We need *bankers* to make millions like a hole in the head.

In an ideal world, financial advisers would be the first place you’d turn for advice about money. But alas they’re out to get yours.

If you can’t get to work because of snow, should you lose a day’s salary or holiday – or should your employer see the bigger picture?

We’re due a new technology boom – but if you’re a UK reader, you might miss out due to the lack of big names on the London market.

The bargain basement market of March 2009 seems an age ago, but what will happen in 2010? Nobody knows but everyone has an opinion.

The UK stock market has been talked down by every other fund manager and share tipper out there. In response, it has soared.

The record steepening of the US Treasury yield curve suggests stock markets could still be good value, and I agree.

The stock market falls made absolute return funds an easy sell, but the timing for investors was terrible.

Bankers don’t deserve their multi-million bonuses in the best years, let alone when they’re on life support. Bash those bonuses.

The 2009 pre-budget report was certainly painful, but instead of surgically precise spending cuts and tax lifts, we got clumsy bloodletting.

Alliance Trust says that the future of investment trusts could be in doubt if Europe’s AIFM Directive becomes law.

The best place to be when the news story about the Dubai debt crisis broke was somewhere where it didn’t break at all.