Year to date, the smaller companies sector has been a resilient place to invest. Although the broader market is up this year there have been three significant...

Ben Bernanke on the latest round of quantitative easing, November 4th 2010:

From the perspective of an individual business, we believe there are three critical aspects to growth:

The macro-economic risks that lurk in the shadows of financial markets at present are serious ones, and we are treating them with due...

When economic times were better, ‘restructuring’ was a dirty word in the lexicon of executive management teams. Nowadays, as our new Chancellor would put it, we are...

“The more sophisticated electric utility maintains – perhaps increases – the quarterly dividend and then asks shareholders (either old or new) to mail back the...

In February we mentioned three headwinds that we see as recurring motifs of the current investment landscape – sovereign default risk, political interference and Asian overheating (most acutely...

For investors in search of an attractive return on their savings, today’s cash and bond markets resemble a barren lunar landscape. Wherever you look, yields have come...

The US dollar will take some time to shed its reserve currency status. However poor the US’s fiscal position looks on an absolute basis, relative to Japan and...