Weekly Roundup, 5th May 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: ETFs, inequality, no oil boom, 100 year bonds, MaxMyInterest, low wages
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: ETFs, inequality, no oil boom, 100 year bonds, MaxMyInterest, low wages
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: China and Japan, inequality, active vs passive, flash crash, junk bonds and Grexit
We begin today’s Weekly Roundup with the FT’s “Chart that tells a story”. Income gap narrows The chart below shows how the after-tax income of the richest, poorest and average…
For a change, we do not begin our weekly roundup in the FT. Instead we will take a look at AltFi. AltFi / P2P / Mini-bonds AltFi, the alternative finance…
We begin our weekly roundup as usual in the FT. Passive investing Judith Evans and Jonthan Eley put together a special feature on the impact of passive funds, and ETFs…
We begin our Weekly Roundup as usual in the FT, with Jonathan Eley. Don’t buy IPOs This week’s “chart that tells a story” really does what it says on the…
We begin the weekly roundup with the FT round table. FT Round Table – themes for 2015 The FT got a panel of pundits together to discuss 2015. As well…
We begin our weekly roundup as usual in the FT. P2P developments Judith Evans reported that Zopa plan to target the retirement market with an annuity replacement product based on…
We start today’s weekly roundup with Jonathan Eley’s FT column. UK savings rate Jonathan was looking at a report from the Social Market foundation, a think-tank. They note that despite…
We begin today’s weekly roundup with a chart from the FT. Hidden fund costs The charges on active funds seem to be in the news every week at the moment….
This week, there was a lot of attention in the papers and online about the consequences of the falling oil price. I will return to this in a later post….