What caught my eye this week. I was delighted to hear from Monevator reader Elizabeth Wong a few months ago, when she sent me a copy of her new short story and said it might be of interest to people around here. It was! The Landless is a thought provoking tale that takes many of [...]
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What caught my eye this week. I noticed an article in This Is Money this week featuring a reader upset that their pension hadn’t been life-styled into lower-risk assets as they’d hoped. Instead, they wrote: …my money remained in a fund rated moderate-high risk/high reward until March 2020. At this point, I realised what had [...]
What caught my eye this week. Going on the comments I’ve heard and read this week, many stock market types have flopped into the Easter Weekend like a late-night drunk who only makes it as far as the living room sofa. Relief! Sweet relief. Of course, UK investors may have a four-day break from seeing [...]
What caught my eye this week. Nobody asked for it and now it’s here – the new Monevator shop is open, offering in-joke themed investing T-shirts and vaguely punny sweatshirts to all. Perhaps you’ve already spotted Monevator members striding about town sporting fancy wares like this: Yes, those cool cats got early access. Thanks to everyone [...]
What caught my eye this week. You don’t need to commission a full-on report to know that we all have wildly different ideas about money – and about how much of it is, well, a lot. And you don’t need to be a dedicated peruser of the personal finance Internet to know the rule is [...]
What caught my eye this week. It’s not been easy to find reasons to be optimistic about the shrinking British stock market in recent years. But I think how private investors, fund managers, the investment trust industry, and investment platforms worked together to defeat US firm Saba’s designs on the trust sector might qualify. As [...]
What caught my eye this week. Has winter dragged on for you too, or is it just me? I asked ChatGPT if the weather has been unusually cold and it waffled on for a bit with some anecdotes and then said I should check with the BBC. Which seemed pretty unhelpful, but then I thought [...]
What caught my eye this week. I don’t know about you, but I really miss that six-month spell last year when we all fretted about what was going to happen to pension allowances, inheritance tax, AIM shares, and all the rest of it. Everyone knows financial planning is dull as dishwater. So why not living [...]
What caught my eye this week. I enjoyed Life After The Daily Grind’s article asking whether money and miserableness go together. It was sharply written and thought-provoking. But I didn’t really agree with the main premise. Over the last decade or so several of my friends have ‘made it’. From wealthy enough to eschew the [...]
What caught my eye this week. There’s a mildly titanic battle going on in the beleaguered UK investment trust space. Everything from the rise of index funds to the 2022 reset in interest rates to steady outflows from all UK equities – not to mention lousy performance in many cases – has left the sector [...]