Tag: Finance

There is too much inconsistency in the way the UK's privatised industries are managed and financed. A new and comprehensive plan is needed.

Christmas Quiz (with full answers)

Some aspects of financial advice may not need to be tailored.

If stock-picking fails to beat the index, why should picking companies? It won’t, unless mergers carefully match the firms involved.

There are many things wrong with British banks, but contrary to the Cruickshank Report, the fact that they make profits is not one of them.

With a sense of historical perspective that is submerged by today's e-babble, we can see that some of these dreams will have to become reality simply to ensure that the pace of change over the next century is as rapid as the pace of change has been over the last two centuries.

Why not diversify by buying a tracker fund? Because what is representative of the stock market is not at all representative of the British economy.

The equity risk premium seems very high; but perhaps it has just been an unusually good century for equity investors.

Great size is a warning of trouble ahead in the banking industry; and the trouble may be for the taxpayer as much as the shareholder.

The management and governance of LIFFE is not an easy job. Exchanges are natural monopolies, and provide benefits which are valuable only in what they make possible.