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Tax is a persistent pain when investing, slicing away at your hard-gotten gains. Here’s how to defuse future headaches when it comes to CGT.
The best businesses can be too good to stay that way. Blessed with superb economics and seemingly-impregnable market positions, anyone would want to own their quality but for two recurring problems: Valuation – Unless the company or its sector is new (think Google-owner Alphabet on listing in 2004) or there is some kind of crisis (as [...]
What caught my eye this week. Just 26 sleeps to go until the new government’s first Budget on Wednesday 30 October. And I cannot recall there ever being so much pre-match jitters. I could have filled the links below with forecasts, evasive action tips, and threats to emigrate. Hardly what anyone would call a honeymoon [...]
A few years ago I wrote about market efficiency and investing edge – and about how you don’t have it. But let’s dig deeper into why this is true. You often hear from retail punters and professional investors alike that passive (or index) investing makes markets less efficient. Their argument is that this inefficiency is [...]
Everyone will face spending shocks in retirement – and our model portfolio has just hit its first bout of unexpected turbulence
Pay off the mortgage or invest? There’s no simple answer, which is my excuse for writing, and writing, and writing…
Who’d want the hassle of being a landlord if you can get the same return from share?