Year: 2023

For a long time we couldn’t compare the rates of interest on cash in investment accounts for one simple reason. Brokers weren’t paying any interest on cash! Rising rates have so dominated the news for the past 18 months that it’s easy to forget that interest rates were near-zero for…

How effective are commodities as an inflation hedge in the UK?

Could we really create a shareholder democracy out of Britain’s huge cash pile? Plus all the week’s good reads…

The rise in rates since 2022 has smashed the returns for all sorts of assets. That might make them good buys today…