Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman learns a $4bn lessonStocktake: betting the farm is always dumb – whether you make a bundle or lose the lotTue Mar 21 2017 - 06:30
President Le Pen: should investors be worried?An advancing equity market does not necessarily mean investors are not nervousTue Mar 14 2017 - 06:33
What investors can learn from Snap’s flotationStocktake: Being patient can pay off even when looking at the hottest new stocksTue Mar 14 2017 - 06:30
StockTake: Bull market refuses to dipThis rally is refusing to retreat, which must be torture for those on the sidelinesTue Mar 07 2017 - 06:30
US bull market celebrates its eighth birthdaySecond-longest advance in market history shows no signs of ending any time soonMon Mar 06 2017 - 07:00
Are investors hurt by corporate focus on short-term returns?McKinsey report finds short-termism in US costs millions of jobs and hampers growthTue Feb 28 2017 - 07:00
Stocktake: Investors should not fear another Black MondayStocktake: A cool look at overbought markets and cracks in the global rallyTue Feb 28 2017 - 06:30
Snapchat parent’s IPO valuation not a pretty pictureNo major flotation in recent decades has looked remotely as expensive as Snap’sTue Feb 21 2017 - 06:30
It’s all coming out now about closet trackersStocktake: Funds sold as actively managed may actually closely follow benchmarksTue Feb 21 2017 - 06:30
Bullish investors ignoring dark ‘shadows’Stocktake: Worrying about Trump, don’t believe the hype and snapping up the wrong ‘Snapchat’Tue Feb 14 2017 - 06:30
Most stocks make for lousy bets, new research showsStudy over last 90 years finds the majority of stocks underperform risk-free bondsTue Feb 14 2017 - 05:35
Trump card: are stock markets having second thoughts?Is Wall Street’s three-month honeymoon with Donald Trump coming to an end?Tue Feb 07 2017 - 07:00
Stocks’ new streetlight: 'Trump on, Trump off'StockTake: Trumponomics sparked a big bounce, but concerns have curtailed rallyTue Feb 07 2017 - 06:30
Volatility in the markets not the monster many make it out to beSense of perspective required to put ‘big, scary numbers into context’Tue Jan 31 2017 - 06:00
Don’t read too much into the political meaning of rising stock pricesStocktake: Even if Trump’s presidency proves unexpectedly successful, investors are likely to witness a bear market during his tenureTue Jan 31 2017 - 06:00
Pricy stock market can get pricierStocktake: The Trump factor, presidential tweets and Madoff’s hot chocolate monopolyTue Jan 24 2017 - 06:30
Does Trump pose a threat to complacent markets?Investors respond rapidly to incoming US president’s unpredictable rhetoric and policyTue Jan 24 2017 - 06:30
Stocktake: FTSE rally no cause for patriotic fervourBritish investors would have made more money if they had invested almost anywhere elseTue Jan 17 2017 - 07:56
Is it time to bet on an earnings upturn in Europe?Both Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch are making optimistic noises for 2017Tue Jan 17 2017 - 07:19
A friendship of opposites that changed our view of human thinkingDaniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky paved the way for behavioural financeTue Jan 10 2017 - 08:04
Ignore warnings about Trump inauguration effect on marketStockTake: ‘Bull market checklist’ suggests any decline unlikely to be decisiveTue Jan 10 2017 - 05:00
What’s in store for investors in 2017?Strategists are quite bullish, favouring US over Europe, but should investors care?Tue Jan 03 2017 - 07:00
S&P 500 eyes ninth year of gainsStocktake: Investor optimism, emerging markets, political fears and a quiet holiday periodTue Jan 03 2017 - 06:30
From market meltdown to melt-up: lessons from 2016How unrealised fear of a global recession has given way to renewed hope for 2017Tue Dec 20 2016 - 06:33
Bullish sentiment risks becoming a headwindStocktake: Trump’s election victory has decisively altered market expectations in USTue Dec 20 2016 - 06:30
Where are the female fund managers?Just one in nine fund managers in Ireland is a woman, and the problem is getting worse worldwideTue Dec 13 2016 - 05:55
Chief executives do not merit superstar salariesStocktake: Italian crisis not a crisis, bullishness at 17-month highs and ‘exuberance’ on wayMon Dec 12 2016 - 07:10
Will the ‘Trump bump’ be followed by a market melt-up?Much is made of the recent spike in bond yields, but bonds had bottomed last JulyTue Dec 06 2016 - 05:00
After Donald Trump bump, are stocks due a breather?Stocktake: Round-number milestones historically associated with under-performanceMon Dec 05 2016 - 07:10
Markets are buoyant, but this is not 1999Stocks may have enjoyed a nice rally but there is no cause yet for euphoriaTue Nov 29 2016 - 07:00
Investors should ignore Gundlach’s guessing gameAsked about the possibility of Brexit in April, the ‘bond king’ said it would not happenTue Nov 29 2016 - 05:22
Trump victory offers lessons for stunned investorsStocktake: Market response to US election result confounds bearish forecastersTue Nov 22 2016 - 06:00
Trump seen as ‘unambiguously positive’ for US growthBillionaire investor Wilbur Ross tipped to become new US commerce secretaryTue Nov 22 2016 - 05:01
Stocktake: Markets put their faith in TrumpConsternation regarding Trump’s victory is understandable, but one point bears repeating: don’t let your politics colour your investment outlookTue Nov 15 2016 - 07:14
Retirement planning: are you prone to short-termism?Novel ways of engaging pension-fund investors are being devised, ranging from a short quiz to face-ageing appsTue Nov 15 2016 - 07:13
Stocktake: Should investors sell if Trump wins?Markets are waking up to the risks, falling eight days in a row following the narrowing of Hillary Clinton’s leadTue Nov 08 2016 - 07:10
Full of bull: Donald Trump and the stock marketsA cool look beyond the bluster at the Republican candidate’s financial prowessTue Nov 08 2016 - 06:30
US presidential election: how will stocks react?Will a Donald Trump victory really have the disastrous effects predicted by some?Tue Nov 01 2016 - 07:00
Goldman Sachs: Sterling isn’t even cheap yetNo one really knows for sure where sterling ought to be or where it’s going to goFri Oct 28 2016 - 15:22
Increasingly wary investors are stockpiling cashStocktake: El-Erian’s timing out; financial illiteracy; investors lose faith in TrumpTue Oct 25 2016 - 07:20
Is gut feeling really the secret key to trading success?Recent study suggests that traders attuned to physiological signals make more moneyTue Oct 25 2016 - 06:00
Sterling sell-off gathers momentumStocktake: Mixed signs on earnings, betting against fear and greed, and the value of a good nameTue Oct 18 2016 - 06:42
Investors may need to get used to flash crashesThose who nip in and out of markets would be wise to not view the recent sterling chaos as an isolated incidentTue Oct 18 2016 - 06:00
Proinsias O’Mahony: Bubble phobia will cost investorsMost booms don’t result in busts: a recent Yale study found only one in 10 goes badTue Sept 27 2016 - 05:19
Shameless Donald Trump takes on the FedStocktake: Rodrigo Duterte not helping markets while active fund managers have bad yearMon Sept 26 2016 - 06:10
Index changes may drive interest in ReitsWith real estate added as a new global index sector, Reits will see more growthSat Sept 24 2016 - 05:00
Market metaphors can lead investors astrayExcitable coverage of financial market movements not a recent developmentTue Sept 20 2016 - 06:30
Stocktake: Cautious US Fed to hold off on interest rate hikeRate increase would shock markets despite high-profile calls for riseMon Sept 19 2016 - 07:10
Stock markets shrug off 9/11 anniversary terrorism threatMarkets show resilience as terrorist attacks are increasingly priced into stocksTue Sept 13 2016 - 07:00
Markets resist temptation of Apple iPhone 7 hypeStocktake: Apple shares look fragile, stuck in a downtrend since April 2015Tue Sept 13 2016 - 07:00
