Steering to a soft landing

Asia can look forward to another tough year. Global demand for goods and services is unlikely to improve anytime soon. Investor sentiment towards emerging markets hasn’t been this bad in ages. Stock markets plunged as…

Built for staying power

How time flies when you are enjoying yourself as a personal finance journalist. I can’t believe that nearly 30 golden years have passed since I first started writing about the virtues of investment trusts. I…

Understanding risk

Risk means different things to different people; its essence is embedded in the eye of the beholder. While the concept of fate has long been established, our understanding of risk is still quite new in…

How Will Markets React to the ECB’s Last Bullet?

Back on 12th December (in our note titled “Some Dangerous Signals Appear in Financial Markets”, see here, we outlined what we thought were two potential scenarios for 2016. In the note, we said ”…we believe…

Low-cost exposure or face to the future?

The first step into the stock market from being a cash investor, safe in bank deposits but earning minimal rates (the current best 2-year fixed-term bond pays just 1.85%, and top-paying cash Isas yield around…