Investing

UK passive investors have a paltry choice of index funds, making ETFs a tempting option. Here are some simple ways to reduce the extra costs involved.

Your first time investing may define more than just your first year’s returns. Your experience can influence you for life.

The FT’s John Lee is an excellent investor, whose views on shares are well-worth following – but just don’t track too close behind.

Why help some City whizkid buy his first million pound loft apartment when he can’t even do as well as a simple ETF portfolio?

Don’t mention the war – German companies are among the best in the world, and they’re booming as the world recovers under dark clouds.

Three cheers for free trade! It’s just saved us from a global depression, and it’s been making us richer for centuries.

Wilbur Ross reckons the trick is to take on perceived risks but to avoid real risks. Nice work if you can get it…

The lost decade in Japan haunts Western markets, as deflation stalks the land in the US and interest rates can’t go any lower. Here’s why you shouldn’t worry.

Swensen’s actively managed fund based Yale endowment portfolio has trounced the ETF one he suggests for the common people. What can we do about it?

Why take one unloved banking preference share into the portfolio when you could have two? Well, a few reasons actually, but they didn’t stop me.

Behavioural finance unpicked the Efficient Market Hypothesis. But is it really the Holy Grail of investing insight?

Some people find complicated financial products compelling – especially advisers peddling a hot new fund for commission.

If you’re going to risk borrowing to invest in volatile assets, you need long-term debt to do it.

The rich get richer, while the rest of us struggle to keep up, let alone catch up. It’s all about safety-first investing.

You see a reaction to a French minister saying industrial output is looking shaky. I see a market following a random walk.