Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but they didn’t do investors any favours in the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, supply swamped demand, and diamond giant De Beers was left with a huge stockpile …
Diamonds Haven’t Lost Their Polish
Profiting from the high cost of living longer
The roots of Britain’s so-called ‘pensions crisis’ stretch back to the end of the Second World War, when two great British institutions were established – the NHS and the state pension. The implications today for …
The tempting tax breaks on VCTs
Andy Crossley, fund manager of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies tells MoneyWeek where he’d put his money now. One of the great things about being a UK smaller companies fund manager is that my universe of …
Where to invest your CTF voucher
Jason Britton, co-fund manager at investment boutique T. Bailey tells MoneyWeek where he’d put his money now. The brief for this column was to write about my personal investments, rather than just those I manage …
Canada is sitting on a gold mine – and a huge oil field
Like many other major markets, Canada has had a fit of the jitters over the past few days. The resources-heavy benchmark TSX index has dropped by 4% as commodity prices have slid from their record …
Why the commodities boom is different this time
Investors in commodities have done extraordinarily well in recent years. Gold has risen 117 per cent since its trough, copper 274 per cent and oil an amazing 560 per cent. The soaring share prices of …