Equities

Minimal impact on alternative energy

Risk of Abe resigning

Pullback looking likely

Threat of Eurosceptic movements

Rotation after five years

Netherlands says 'stop' to wrong kind of populism

Beginning of a round of European elections this year

Nicola Sturgeon wants 'IndyRef2' as early as next year

Run by Matthew Tillett

At its core, investing is about increasing wealth. During a period of cyclical upheaval and mean reversion - generously spiced with global political change - it can be healthy to remind ourselves what drives returns on a fundamental level.