Computers increasingly dominate today’s investment world, but they can only go so far

The tech advance has been led by companies with some eye-watering valuation multiples

Private equity groups being pushed into accepting poor terms on deals – Howard Marks

Proinsias O’Mahony: Seven nerve-calming steps to help you make sense of it all

Also in this episode, will the Bitcoin bubble burst? And, Ryanair’s pilot strike

Warren Buffett, Howard Marks and Nobel economist Robert Shiller have warned the craze will end badly

After a decade of unprecedented financial experimentation caution is warranted

Investors yawn at Trump’s ‘barking’ as US bull market shows no sign of stopping

Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds

The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s

Many investors see FAANG stocks as bulletproof, but sceptics are wary of the high values

Howard Marks predicted the dotcom and housing crashes, and now he’s worried trouble is brewing again

Central Bank has called for greater clarification on exchange-traded funds ownership

The price of a single bitcoin hit an all-time high of just under €3,000 this week

Stocktake: Howard Marks warns market is getting bubbly with ‘elevated complacency’

Stocktake: The Trump factor, presidential tweets and Madoff’s hot chocolate monopoly

Stocktake: Market response to US election result confounds bearish forecasters

Former drug smuggler announced he had inoperable bowel cancer in 2015

Index trackers make it harder for hedge funds and ordinary investors to outperform

A general rule of thumb: the most confident are the least accurate, according to research

Exchange-traded funds have revolutionised the investing world but some say they have yet to be tested in times of crisis

Learn from the experts and you can be a more effective investor

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