High CEO pay is back in the news. This is disappointing. We keep thinking that the tide is turning, and that top corporate executives and their self-serving remuneration committees have finally grasped that it is …
David Cameron and George Osborne would like to raise the inheritance tax (IHT) threshold to £1m. They might also harbour dreams of abolishing it altogether. But they can’t. It just isn’t politically possible. Their solution …
The old stamp duty might have been the worst tax in the UK – and that’s saying something. So the changes announced yesterday that removed the old slab system and put in place a more …
Only the very best women make it to the top In the FT last weekend John Authers wrote about the many studies that show female investors outperforming male investors, both in ordinary life and in …
Wages have not risen much in real terms over the last decade. Some think they never will (because of robots, technology, the lack of union power, etc). We aren’t so sure, particularly given the news …
Someone called from Newsnight yesterday. They wanted to ask about housing. Does the obsession with owning houses in the UK damage lives? Does it mean we don’t diversify our investments enough or save enough into …
Red squirrels: cute, but are they really a charitable cause? There isn’t that long to go until Christmas. That means I’m already getting buried in a pile of invitations to charity shopping mornings. I love …
Japan: still an exciting place to be Today’s FT (written last night) took a look at what might happen today. On the release of Japan’s GDP data it noted that the “expectation is that the …
I keep writing here that I think investing in firms such as tobacco companies and banks is a bad idea. Why? Among other things (incomprehensibility in the case of banks, and the ethics thing with …
I said at the Moneyweek Workshop on Saturday that I would pop up a list of all the robotics stocks that Jim Mellon suggests we look at in his new book, Fast Forward (you can order …