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Towering disappointment

Most investing textbooks will tell you commercial property โ€“ or real estate, as US authors prefer โ€“ is a useful…

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Who will profit from this chaos?

There are some bright notes. Wholesale gas prices have come down recently. Perhaps next yearโ€™s energy bills wonโ€™t be quite…

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There are no no-brainers in investing

The lesson of history is not that every decade you get a โ€˜no-brainerโ€™ chance to dust down your Warren Buffett…

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Public misgivings

Elon Musk faces huge challenges if heโ€™s to make a profit on his $44 billion investment in Twitter.

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The bond vigilantes are back

Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary founder of the USSR, once said: โ€œThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks…

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The end of the tech slump or just a Figma of the imagination?

Could Adobe's big ticket takeover similarly break the disenchantment of tech investors?

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How to buy ยฃ1 for 85p

Investment trusts may trade at a discount for many reasons โ€“ often at once โ€“ but itโ€™s mostly centred on…

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Should investors trust in Truss?

What would we press new Prime Minister Liz Truss to get on with?

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Investing in inflation

Inflation was moribund in the West for two decades, with near-zero interest rates since the financial crisis their barely perkier…

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Time to take your shot to get rich

In Timeโ€™s Arrow โ€“ a mind-bending novel by Martin Amis โ€“ time runs backwards. Everything that happens proceeds from what weโ€™d consider…

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Things change

Uncertainty is the only certainty. Stay humble and diversified.

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3 things I don’t do to make money from shares

Stick to buying good companies that you'd ideally own for the long-term, or else invest in index funds and get…

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Investing for a pandemic-proof portfolio

What to invest in if the world has changed due to the pandemic...

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5 other things going on besides Covid-19

Realising how big stories can be crowded out by even bigger stories can give an investor antibodies against news media…

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Doomed dinosaurs and diversification

Change is a constant, in life and markets. Invest accordingly.

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Coronavirus crisis cancelled?

If the world's largest economy is a canary in the coalmine, it's squawking.

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You don’t have to buy the market

If you want to fine-tune your exposure to what happens next, we think stock picking will be more fruitful than…

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5 straightforward reasons to pass on an investment

Don't invest in opportunities you don't believe in.

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A tale of two retailers

Why Next could be a better recovery play than Marks and Spencer.

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Heroes or zeroes?

Investing decisions that look obvious in hindsight aren't in real-time.

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Online retailers’ wild ride sums up shopping for shares in 2020

Online retailers seem like natural beneficiaries from lockdown life.

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Are you ready to wade into the stock market wreckage?

Going against the crowd should power your portfolio to future profits.

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Competition watchdog’s bark will likely prove worse than bite

Most previous investigations have found little evidence of anti-competitive antics, suggesting shareholders have little to worry about.

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Gimme shelter

Defensive, quality, and dividend-paying shares have all been hit for six.

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Will 2020 be the year the banks bounce back?

Could UK banks finally experience the recovery enjoyed by their US peers?

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5 ways to profit from the death of the high street

Shop properties are trading at a big discount, as the market wonders if the tills will ever ring again like…

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Binary bets: Bargains or basket cases?

Three companies that could go either way...

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Keep investing drama for your living room

Everyday investing is a duller affair...

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How to react to the General Election result

History suggests the markets will work through most political turmoil.

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Did you miss the Brexit bounce?

UK shares don't look quite as unloved as they did...

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Five lessons from five great investors

Learning from the best.

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In hindsight, you were a brilliant investor

Investors pay the price for uncertainty every day in the stock market.

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Takeovers targeted

With the pound down, foreign investors have come shopping...

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How will you bet on big oil?

Is there a trickier sector to assess than energy?

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Are these fundamental factors past their sell-by date?

What if these 'fundamentals' have stopped working?

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Everything matters but you don’t know how

Forget about guessing which shares will do best next month...

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Many unhappy returns

Private investors often delude themselves about their performance.

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After the stock market hangover…

Having crashed before Christmas, shares are back around all-time highs.

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Are your companies living on borrowed time?

It's worth doing an audit...

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3 companies in a crisis

Could this be a chance to back a recovery?

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