Thoughts on mixing market cap and equal weighted index funds to capture shifts in market sentiment

Value investing works because of our chronic tendency to expect growth shares to grow forever. Do ‘smart beta’ funds allow investors to take advantage without picking stocks themselves?

On the sublime simplicity of the Vanguard founder’s absolute faith in the humble index fund

A fascinating new book shows how financial writers have nurtured — and exploited —investors’ perennial hopes of windfall gains

Reflections on our expectations that those who are part of the system should be able to control the system

Thoughts on how the forensic mode of enquiry employed by Socrates on the streets of classical Athens can inform better decision making today

Reflections on John Kay and Mervyn King’s forensic examination of the old idea of ‘radical uncertainty’

Peter Stothard’s portrait of the Roman financier Marcus Licinius Crassus is a study in the insecurities that attend great wealth, then and now

A visit to Edinburgh prompts reflections on a philosopher whose insight into the limits of knowledge would have made him a rather good observer of the financial world