I thought I would spend more time managing our investment portfolio when I retired, but I realise now that this is not going ...

Without wishing to sound mercenary, investors should also be thinking about protecting their portfolios against this sort of risk, but there are pitfalls in being too reductive. Intuitively, soft ...

It has achieved the latter, but while it has caused disruption, most economies have avoided worst-case scenarios. Now, with ...

Special dividends may seem like solidly good news as companies return extra cash to investors, but these payouts actually indicate mixed signals. Even so, can they be used to identify companies that ...

Bond yields spiked on worries about the Strait of Hormuz, but the US inflation report came in softer than expected, and ...

UK retailers must wait another two years before a tax loophole that benefits overseas competitors such as Shein and Temu is scrapped, as calls for the government to curb cheap international imports ...

According to OBR figures, the UK government spent £110bn on debt interest last year – more than it did on education. Though ...

Engineering giant ABB has made a successful bid for competitor Rotork (ROR), in a £4.1bn deal that will take the FTSE 250 group off the London Exchange. Rotork’s board has accepted a 506p per share ...

Education technology company RM (RM.) posted a 200 per cent jump in half-year adjusted operating profit despite a decline in revenue, as a restructuring plan aimed at simplifying the business began to ...

Golden Prospect Precious Metals (GPM) is getting a management shake-up. The £93mn mining trust has agreed to appoint Baker Steel as its manager, taking over from CQS Manulife. The change is expected ...

Oil prices jumped as the US and Iran exchanged military strikes over the weekend, in a sharp escalation since Friday. It ...

AI investors are recalibrating bets on companies feeding into the data centre build-out, rotating out of the more speculative companies a few steps removed from the hyperscalers. This has been keenly ...