A survey out last week in Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine showed the salaries of the world’s top hedge-fund managers. I had to read it a few times before I really believed it. I can just …
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Is now a good time to buy into Japan?
Visit Japan today and you’ll find it booming. Tokyo’s restaurants are once again dropping bits of gold leaf into miso soup and its shops are packed with people buying luxury goods as fast as they …
Get exposure to Asia – buy uranium
Asian markets have not been kind to investors this summer – many are still 20% off the highs they hit this year. But amid all the drama, it’s worth remembering why so many people poured …
Forget funds – it’s picking markets that matters
The more I think about investing, the more I wonder why we humour the financial-services industry as much as we do. We spend far too much of our money investing in their unit trusts and …
Is the US facing recession?
It is an unusual state of affairs, but the fund-management community has come over all miserable. A monthly Merrill Lynch survey of more than 200 of them, taken in the second week of July, asked if …
Why Helen Green’s £800,000 is not as much as it seems
A few weeks ago Beverley Charman suddenly found herself in possession of £48m. Then a few days later Helen Green was handed a cheque for £800,000. Cue green-eyed columnists across the nation huffing and puffing …
Paul Hill’s tip of the week: can this blue chip weather the storm?
Paul Hill, one of Britain’s most successful private investors, picks the best share tip from the week’s press and brokers’ reports After last week’s more speculative recommendations, I have chosen a solid ‘widows and orphans’ …
Why stockmarkets have further to fall
Towards the end of April this year most of the world’s major stock markets turned down and the market highs set then, remain untested. For most, of the markets, the all time highs set in …
Will space tourism ever take off?
Virgin aims to take paying customers on trips in space within three years. Some say that’s an optimistic proposition. But Virgin isn’t the only one having a go… Have any tourists entered space? It’s early …
Don’t write off firms working with the public sector
The British Government and technology is a combination guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any taxpayer. Our politicians have a long and inglorious track record of failed projects and horrendous cost overruns; think …