Investors are only human and humans make mistakes. This means that investors can make mistakes and, interestingly, there are some mistakes investors make on a regular basis. Here are [...]
As the old saying goes, hindsight is always 20/20. Every time a well-known figure or company plummets down to earth with a bump, the subsequent inquest picks up indications which could, and [...]
Recently, there have been two government initiatives which have the potential to make a huge difference to the lives of people who live in the country. The first is the push to roll out [...]
Just as parents of young, growing children always seem to be needing to find money new shoes and clothes, so owners of young, growing businesses may have a need to find money to make the most of [...]
These days cybersecurity is often headline news, especially when a “big-enough-to-know-better” company ends up being the victim of a cyberattack which exploited weaknesses in their own [...]
There’s an old joke that if you put 10 economists in a room and asked them to discuss a topic, you’d wind up with at least 20 different opinions on it. While this may be a bit unfair, it is [...]
There are all kinds of approaches to investing, arguably at least one for every investor at any given time, but many of them involve some degree of predicting the future. You can call it [...]
The monarch may not be a political figure (in the UK at least), but the monarch’s speech at the annual opening of parliament is very much a political event, especially at times when general [...]
In the real world, the stock-market price of a company is often at least somewhat different to what a mathematician might expect based on a reading of the company’s financial statements. [...]
One way or another, 2020 looks set to be an interesting year. The UK should have separated from the EU unless the PM changes his mind or a general election gives us a new government. The U.S. [...]
