Shares and the stockmarket

The old market saying that you can have cheap assets and low valuations, just not both at the same time, applies to continental and national...

Last week this column touched on the issue of the vexed issue of the valuation of the UK stock market, using market capitalisation to GDP...

Valuation is the ultimate arbiter of the return on investment from any portfolio pick. No matter how strong the narrative, paying too much can lead...

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try...

While looking into the exact composition of a financial market index may seem no more relevant to some investors than a debate over how many...

China’s move to let its currency, the yuan, slide by some 3% to 4% against the US dollar has potentially huge ramifications for investors’ portfolios,...

It is very rare for this column to be lost for words but it does sometimes happen. A recent presentation at a school in Brighton,...

Markets continue to focus on when the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England will raise interest rates, by how much and for how...

The scrapping of a proposed $2 billion design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and a corporate accounting scandal at the giant...