Gently sceptical thoughts on investment and the wider world of finance – see my Medium publication The Patient Investor for more.

What would a Labour government mean for investors?
- 5th July 2023
Investors seem to have little to fear from a Starmer administration keen to emphasise its commitment to fiscal responsibility

How to invest in China (the easy way)
- 11th June 2023
For long-term investors the balance of power between China and the West matters less than the continued growth of the global economy

How to Fund the Life You Want: a review
- 2nd June 2023
Robin Powell and Jonathan Hollow’s new book on financial planning isn’t afraid to spell out the right and wrong ways to invest

How to Invest: a review
- 23rd May 2023
A new book in The Economist series offers a comprehensive guide to investment principles but is perhaps not for the complete beginner

The space economy: real and imagined
- 27th April 2023
What the Starship launch indicates about the future of investing in the space industry

Saying good-bye to a ‘forever’ stock
- 25th April 2023
On the peculiar difficulty of letting go of a fund that had been intended to be held for the long-term

The harpoon and the net
- 22nd April 2023
A simple image for picturing active and passive investment – and why we think one is more deserving than the other

Thematic ETFs: no more — and no less — than good stories
- 19th April 2023
ETFs that promise to follow a market trend may not make you rich – but perhaps that is to miss the point