Economics & Markets

It’s been an “interesting” start to 2021… but bad stuff happens in markets

The lesson from the first week of the year is that we should drop any assumptions 2021 is going to…

Why you need to understand decentralised finance

Cryptocurrency has now been around for some time and has more than permeated the general consciousness. But what makes it…

Journal of the Plague Years XIV: Vaccination Year

As the vaccination programme takes centre stage in 2021, some nations will far better than other, writes Victor Hill.

Brexit: Game Over

Will Britain really be better positioned to prosper going forward under the new trade deal? Only time will tell, writes…

Busting some of the common myths about investing in private equity

Helen Steers, Partner at Pantheon and Manager of Pantheon International Plc (PIP), addresses some of the common myths surrounding private…

2099: The Journey of the Magi (to Mars)

Melchior wrote his renown opus, The Annals of the 21st Century, while travelling to Mars in the company of two…

Beware US IPO madness

If you really want to worry about how euphoric markets are, think about the US IPO market. Toppy or what?

Journal of the Plague Year XIII – The Vials of Destiny

The mass global vaccination programme against Covid-19 began in the UK on Tuesday 08 December. Is this the beginning of…

The bond market is your friend

In a stock market crash, the high-quality fixed income segment of a portfolio is all you have to count on.

Brexit: The deal that never was

It’s looking likely that if there ever was going to be a UK-EU trade deal it would have happened by…