Numbers are in for August and according to David Blitzer of S&P Dow Jones, the US markets have yet again beat pretty much all the competition – see the big table below for returns from the S&P Dow Jones universe…. Continue reading →
My current top contender for wooden spoon prize of the year for woeful investment trust launches is….drum roll…..Georgia Capital. A few months this emerged in a separate listing on the LSE via a demerger and then promptly turned into a… Continue reading →
Time for a caveat to my recent mea culpa. As a diehard Trump-phobic, I had assumed – and stated so publicly – that if the Twitter King was elected, US equities would tank. I wasn’t alone in that projection – billionaire… Continue reading →
A doubleheader note today on big macro themes. First, gold. I’ve quietly grown more interested in gold for three reasons in recent months. The first is that it doesn’t seem to be an expensive hedge against volatility at the moment…. Continue reading →
Fidelity’s launch of a zero fee US equities tracker has sparked an inevitable bout of anxiety and panic. The anxiety comes from the those who think ETFs are the next weapons of mass financial destruction and that a free ETF… Continue reading →
Share buybacks are all the rage at the moment, thanks to a bullish US market and generous corporate tax breaks. The good news is that many equity income managers swear by the good old share buyback. Their argument is that… Continue reading →
Another update today on my favourite pharma VC play – Syncona, the old BACITs investment vehicle. In my FT column last year I suggested this was an impressive transformation worth backing. Since then the shares have more than doubled. Earlier… Continue reading →
Narrative anchoring is always a dangerous trait and I must admit that in the last few months I’ve become progressively more cautious about stock markets. Which is possibly why I’m always on the lookout for signals of impending trouble –… Continue reading →
I’ve long believed that there is a good chance that either the next mega-crisis – or the one after that – will start in China. More particularly it will feature a mismatch between hard business realities – some crisis –… Continue reading →
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