Investing

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.

With the common shares tempting value investors yet others fearing a second banking crash, these high-yielding 5-year bonds look a good compromise.

For the third time in five years, I own Lloyds shares. What’s the case for the company this time around?

Wondering how your money will grow? Pondering whether it’s worth over-paying your mortgage? Muse no more, my friends.

Sometimes the best time to pick up a bargain is when everyone else is running the other way. Is it time to buy BP shares?

Why buy some dubious investment bond thingy-me with a big initial fee when you can buy a 5% income from investment trusts?