Opinion

Frankly, I do not give a super-injunction which Premier League footballer has been playing away from home with which reality TV star, but I am still incensed about PPI, even though it seems to have conveniently disappeared as an important story.

The debate about how quantifiable the skill of active managers is has been reignited again by research from Inalytics, the specialist manager evaluation firm, which concludes fund managers with no significant skill in stockpicking have still been able...

WHY THE IMA REVAMP WILL HURT CLIENTS

A PYRRHIC VICTORY FOR THE ECB

Another investment theme with a catchy acronym is moving into the limelight, but is there a story behind the moniker?

All this talk of commodity super cycles is baloney. Lots of clever people are using some very interesting case studies (selectively) to build a grand narrative that essentially results in a small number of people making a lot of money from the rest of...

Stock markets have had to contend with many headwinds over the past few months, be it inflationary pressures globally, unrest in the Middle East and North African region, an anaemic recovery in developed economies, continued sovereign debt concerns and...

Pick a term, any term. ‘Reprofiling', ‘restructuring' or a plain old ‘default' - there is only so far you can disguise the inevitable.

Debt is a funny thing for markets. Have too little of it, and spirits sag. Share prices perform badly and investors worry there will be insufficient growth.

The outlook for global growth remains robust thanks to one of the biggest investment spending cycles for several decades.