Terry Smith bemoaning index funds, plus all the week’s good reads…
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What caught my eye this week. Despite all the noise about US mega-cap tech shares and the gloom around the moribund UK economy, London’s FTSE 100 index beat the hallowed US markets in 2025: ((Graph below shows 12 months to 2 January 2026. Date ranges are a pain in Google these days, but I’m still [...]
What caught my eye this week. There’s a growing sense – I’d argue a reality – of intergenerational inequity in the UK, as with many other developed countries. Whether the old having so much more than the young is an inevitable consequence of late capitalism, a comorbidity of a broken housing market, the demographic bulge [...]
Intrigue everyone in your office party by wearing a Christmas jumper from a cult investing website they’ve never heard of!
What caught my eye this week. Like many people, my immediate reaction to this week’s budget was a sense of relief. Not just on a personal level. Rather, given the litany of potential clangers leaked beforehand – and Rachel Reeves’ form with her hike in employer NICs last year – I was pleased to see [...]
What caught my eye this week. Twas the night before the budget – give or take – and nothing was stirring, not even a mouse to move a pointer over the button to CALCULATE whether you’d be a winner or loser from the forecast tax changes to come on 26 November. Everyone was exhausted from [...]
Budget speculation reaches for the income tax button. Plus all the week’s best money and investing reads…
Why would passive investors want to put money into pricy private funds? Plus all the week’s best reads…
What caught my eye this week. Unlike some vocal Monevator readers, I’m nearly all-in on the cashless society. I even have a long-running email thread with a few sceptical and long-suffering friends, where I goad them with statistics about cashless shops and restaurants, and stories about homeless people taking donations via their own QR codes. [...]
The whole world in Goldman Sach’s hands, plus all the week’s best money and investing reads…
What caught my eye this week. Working at the end of the age of publishing words has given me a lead on the post-LLM era. I saw early on how ChatGPT had mined the web for everything ever written – well-enough to spit out answers about anything. And as a writer I had more incentive [...]