Opinion

The financial adviser Arthur Childs, of Surrey-based Arch Financial Planning, likened a pension to a kitchen in a recent note to his clients, which is a novel and more accessible way of describing them to the average person who is not embroiled in the...

I met a conman the other week - a fully-fledged fraudster. And I will tell you, it is frightening how easy it is for people to get taken in by them.

CLIMATE CHANGE: AN INVESTMENT ISSUE?

If bankruptcy is the inability to raise all the money in tax or borrow the money you need to sustain your expenditures from commercial banks and bondholders, then Greece, effectively, went bankrupt last spring.

For the last few years, the financial services industry has spent an inordinate amount of time moaning about everything from onerous regulatory pressures that fail to prevent systemic crises through to dreadful investment returns.

In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, American economist Leigh Skene addressed a lunch organised by Investment Week for family offices and their advisers.

TEN REASONS TO BUY HIGH YIELD

THE BEST VS THE REST IN FIXED INCOME

ALL RATE HIKE BETS ARE OFF

The big event in May for the London stock market was the IPO of Glencore. Many investors are unsettled about the logic of listing companies on the LSE that have little or no economic footprint in the UK.