Most active managers underperform the marketInvestors are allocating ever greater sums to passive investments including ETFs and index trackers. Regulators have taken note, says David Stevenson. Passive investments are on a roll. In the US …
The electric ID.3 has a range of up to 550kmGerman carmaker VW is putting the emissions scandal behind it, says Matthew Partridge. Traders should go long. For the past few years Volkswagen AG (Frankfurt: VOW) …
For more like this, sign up to Money Morning, our free daily email. Today’s Money Minute is all about confidence. In Germany this morning, we get a snapshot of how German businesses are feeling about …
Bonds advanced after the attack on Saudi Arabia, with investors ignoring the potential for a rise in inflation. This chart also suggests they are being complacent. As James Ferguson of MacroStrategy Partnership points out, there …
“The Great Depression, we talked ourselves into,” Robert Shiller tells The Daily Telegraph. The Yale economics professor and winner of the Nobel Memorial prize, can credibly claim to have predicted the two biggest crashes of …
Where will the next cash windfall come from?So long PPI payments. The end of August saw a huge surge in deadline-defying claims for compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance – RBS saw 200,000 claims come …
Last week, wealth manager Charles Stanley sponsored a supplement published with some of the papers. It wasn’t awful – there was some stuff about the social and environmental impacts of investing, as well as the …
Each week, a professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Kevin Carter, CIO and founder of the Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce UCITS ETF. We believe that the rise of the …
European Central Bank head Mario DraghiMario Draghi, the European Central Bank boss, steps down shortly. What has he achieved with his parting shot? European Central Bank (ECB) governor Mario Draghi recently held his penultimate monetary …
For more like this, sign up to Money Morning, our free daily email. It’s a busy week for corporate news, with company results, US consumer confidence and UK house prices. On Tuesday, we get half-year …