Who’d invest in property today? The answer should really be “almost nobody”. Last year, George Osborne announced some initially innocuous-sounding new rules on the tax treatment of mortgage interest payments on buy-to-lets. We saw the …
I wrote last week about what might finally force the big fund managers to cut their fees. The FT today provides one more answer on top of the three I mentioned: it is the big …
In the 15 years since we launched MoneyWeek, we have seen three major bubbles come and go. The first was the tech bubble of 2000 (this was scary – it kicked off only a very …
“Fat Cat Tuesday”. That’s what the High Pay Centre branded yesterday, when it released figures showing that, according to its guestimates, the average FTSE 100 CEO had earned more by the end of yesterday than …
I’ve written here pretty relentlessly over the last few years about the great financial scandal that is the charity sector. You can read my thoughts here, here and here. You might also watch this video …
I wrote here earlier in the week about how tricky it is getting for the government to collect corporation tax from big companies. But there is another group of people who are just thrilled at …
There has been endless complaining over the last few years about just how little tax big companies operating in the UK pay here. At first glance, those complaints are completely valid. It is clearly absurd …
Times are getting tough for hedge fund managers. So tough that, according to BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe’s third-largest hedge fund manager, there’s no point being in the business at all. The company has just told …
Well, so much for Black Friday. Shops across the UK and the US prepared for scrums that never happened. One man queued outside John Lewis in London last Thursday night while a variety of cold …
We’ve made our views on buy to let pretty clear here over the last few weeks. We don’t have the moral problems with it that some do – in the right circumstances owning property and …