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Pay and the City

Patience is required in the long battle to tame fat cats

Importing activism

Thankfully London avoided importing the worst excesses of 1980s Wall St - but another feature of the decade, activisim, has finally arrived

Half-term report

Observations from a busy fortnight of company results

The case for optimism

Cynicism is a good trait for investors to cultivate; pessimism, on the other hand, is not

Quite contrary

Contrarian bets would have paid off handsomely in 2016, but it’s a difficult investing strategy to pull off

Arm wrestle

The proposed takeover for Britain is not as bad for British industry as some suggest

Marvellous mid caps

The post-referendum fall of the FTSE 250 index disguises the advantages it still holds over its blue chip counterpart

Property panic

The suspension of redemptions from some open-ended property funds reflects more on their structure than it does on the asset class

Brexit medicine

A painful bout of uncertainty may be the price we must pay to fix deeper economic problems

Embrace the unknown

The end of the referendum will not be the end of the uncertainty investors face in the years ahead - we must instead learn to live with it