In this week’s magazine, we have a look at how changes to pensions allowances will affect those with good-sized pensions (subscribe to MoneyWeek magazine on Thursday, but the answer is mostly badly). But along the …
We’ve written a lot about how wrong-headed incentive payments to corporate executives, alongside short-termism from the market’s big investors, have damaged Western economies. When everyone’s making money out of short-term share price moves, no-one is …
We’ve written a lot here about the failure of the corporate world to invest. There have been a few attempts recently to suggest the problem isn’t that bad after all (subscribers can read a lot …
I wrote here a few weeks ago that the FTSE 100 is a pretty no-growth place to invest. You might be getting good dividends from many of its heavyweight sectors, but ten years from now you …
Japan didn’t have a particularly nice start to the year (although regular readers will be pleased to note they made as much on their gold mining shares as they might have lost on their Japanese …
A fascinating piece arrives on the difference in performance between investment trusts and unit trusts run by the same managers. FE TrustNet and Investment Week have analysed the returns made by high-profile managers who run …
Some good news: it may be that MoneyWeek readers with Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) accounts don’t have to move after all. We weren’t that impressed with the new charging structure for a few simple reasons. First, we …
I’ve written before about the way in which quantitative easing (QE) and very low interest rate policies redistribute wealth, and how that isn’t necessarily a good thing. Ros Altman has more depressing figures on the matter. …
I don’t go to very many speeches by important-sounding people (it is rarely worth it). But I made an exception yesterday for Mark Carney, who was up in Edinburgh giving a speech about what makes …
Today, everyone who joins the new national pension scheme is enrolled as their firm joins the scheme, but everyone also has the right to decide that they prefer jam today over jam tomorrow, and to …