Victor Hill

Don’t expect big gains from the FTSE in 2017

If you had decided to double up your exposure to the London stock market at the beginning of last year…

The Twelve Days of Christmas

If you ever wondered what that Christmas song really means, look no further. It’s the moment to look back over…

Gastronomic nationalism gives investors food for thought

In the January edition of the MI magazine I’m going to be talking about food. Specifically: why global agribusiness is…

The end of globalisation

2016 will go down in the annals of history as the year that the world changed course. Hitherto, since the…

Earthquake in Italy: European banks tremble

Another vote, another shock Yesterday, Italy became the most recent domino to fall in the global populist revolution about which…

Escape from the Brexit Labyrinth

Every school kid now knows that if the British government wants to fulfil the will of the British people expressed…

I, Philip Hammond…

UK public finances are way off course. But, despite the unsympathetic forces of a cynical state ranged against him, one…

Why you should be worried about global debt levels

Financial Armageddon? At least you reacted… Readers’ reactions to my piece in this month’s MI magazine on the theme of…

Trump: The silent majority bites back

It’s déjà vu – all over again The great American people have spoken. And the opinion polls were wrong. Again.…

Financial Armageddon? It’s not inevitable, but…

Risks in the international financial system have been rising for a while. In recent months bank valuations and some credit…