1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (186+ words) For more than a decade, active fund managers have faced an awkward adversary: arithmetic. Low-cost passive funds have steadily accumulated assets by offering broad market exposure without requiring investors to believe that a manager can consistently beat an index after…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (634+ words) For years, investors could take one thing for granted: money was cheap. Interest rates were low, central banks were buying bonds, inflation was subdued, and capital seemed almost endlessly available. That backdrop helped fuel everything from long-duration tech stocks to…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (262+ words) The numbers are notable not simply because of the scale of the gain, but because they sit alongside what remains a substantial income proposition. AAIF’s annualised dividend yield was 6.3 per cent at the end of June, while the first two…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (135+ words) Every market has companies that suddenly fall out of favour. Sometimes it's because the business model has broken down. More often, it's because investors become so focused on the next quarter that they lose sight of the bigger picture. For…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (578+ words) The oil market has always been a global affair. A disruption in one shipping lane can ripple across continents within hours, lifting benchmark crude prices from London to Singapore. Yet the inflationary consequences of those shocks are anything but uniform....

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1358+ words) By Nitesh Shah, Head of Commodities and Macroeconomic Research, WisdomTree Gold has undergone a remarkable reversal during the first half of 2026. After reaching an intraday record high of US$5,595/oz on 29 January, prices corrected sharply and, at the time of…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Political uncertainty is increasingly shaping investment decisions among UK retail investors, with almost a quarter reducing their exposure to domestic markets as confidence in the country’s outlook weakens, according to new research from investment platform IG. The study suggests investor…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (520+ words) The US dollar enters the third quarter on a steadier footing than earlier in the year, but beneath the surface, conviction is becoming more polarised, economic signals are mixed, and markets remain acutely sensitive to incoming data and Federal Reserve…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (529+ words) India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous nation and is expected to remain among the fastest-growing major economies, fuelling expectations that it could become the next global manufacturing powerhouse. But investors should be wary of assuming India’s economic…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (284+ words) Financial markets have never suffered from a shortage of information. Their problem is deciding which information matters before everyone else does. London-based fintech Permutable is the latest company betting that the next frontier lies not in producing more data, but…...