Opinion

Today's Budget may have seemed like a long, drawn-out, predictable litany of banker-bashing and pre-election tax breaks, but hidden deep among the tedium was at least one bold announcement - that financial capability is to be taught as part of maths GCSE....

Investment Week Conjecture

My post-graduate economics supervisor suffered from one of the most debilitating and chronic diseases known to afflict academics.

The three main political parties have now all revealed their slogans to attract the electorate in the forthcoming elections and it will not be long before the official date is called - 6th May still looks favourite - and they publish their manifestos....

We are often asked by clients for a breakdown of our performance by individual stock, ie an attribution analysis.

For many across the world, it was probably the Beijing Olympics when it dawned where future global economic and political power really lay.

I was first attracted to ETFs by their simplicity and low costs. As a long-standing advocate of indexing investments in efficient, complex and foreign markets for a variety of good reasons, the advent of the ETF was manna from heaven.

One of the UK's most prominent investors in hedge funds says Ucits funds can carry similar risks to unregulated products, despite the regulatory imprimatur.

Interactive Financial Adviser

A full decade after the Nasdaq peaked and then toppled dramatically from investor favour, clearly the wounds of technology investors are still taking time to heal.