Latest articles by Jody Clarke
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Holly Tucker: Firms flock to my virtual high-street
Features Holly Tucker isn't too worried about the state of the British high street. Her online department store is seeing sales double each year.
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Antoine van Agtmael: Where to trade today
Tutorials Emerging markets investment pioneer Antoine van Agtmael talks to Jody Clarke about today's most important markets.
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How to avoid paying trail commission
Features 'Trail commission' - a regular payment made to your adviser by a fund manager - encourages that adviser to hold onto any fund you buy through them. Many see it a fair charge. We disagree. Here's how to avoid paying it.
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Terry Clune: How the taxman helped me make €90m
Features Terry Clune started out giving tax advice to students for £25 a go. now his company, Taxback.com, is a 24-hour operation with turnover approaching €90m.
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Perween Warsi: True grit got my samosas into Asda
Features Perween Warsi started her Indian food business selling home-made samosas to the local chip shop. Now the high-profile entrepreneur's company is worth £65m.
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Jim Rogers: Don't follow the crowd
Tutorials Jody Clarke talks to adventure capitalist Jim Rogers about commodity investing - and buying land in North Korea.
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Should you venture into VCTs?
Features It's easy to see why high-earning investors are piling into venture capital trusts (VCTs) – the tax breaks are huge. But should you follow them?
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Nick Jenkins: How I fattened up Moonpig
Features Ex commodities trader Nick Jenkins launched his own card copmany in 2000. It took five years to turn a profit, but now his company, Moonpig, sells ten million cards a year.
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Is wine worth a punt?
Features The Liv-ex 100 Fine Wine Index is up 9.5% over 12 months. So should you be piling into the fine wine market? Jody Clarke finds out.
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Anna Gibson: Founding my firm was child's play
Features When Anna Gibson found the perfect toy to distract her son, she knew she was on to a winner, so she snapped up the distribution rights. Now turnover at her company, micro scooters, is approaching £2m.
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Gary Shilling: Why I love bonds
Features In the latest of our series of interviews with investment gurus, Jody Clarke talks to economist, Forbes columnist and amateur beekeeper, Gary Shilling.
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The best way to pick a defensive stock
Merryn's Blog Switch off your BlackBerry, turn off the TV, and stop reading the newspaper. You are taking in too much information and it's forcing you to make bad investment decisions. So what should you be focused on?
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Michael Parker: making a million from sherbet dib dabs
Features Michael Parker thought he might possibly make a few extra quid selling sweets online to a generation of nostalgic adults. Seven years later, his turnover is approaching £3m.
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Hugh Hendry: Betting on deflation
Features In the fourth of our interviews with investment gurus, Jody Clarke talks to hedge-fund manager Hugh Hendry of Eclectica about what he's investing in now.
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Dennis Gartman: Forget value; ride rallies
Features In the third of our series, Jody Clarke talks to newsletter writer Dennis Gartman about where he'd put his money now.
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Don't be fooled by house price 'rises'
Merryn's Blog London house prices have returned to their peak, according to the UK's largest property website. The average asking price in the capital now stands at an eye-popping £416,157. But can you trust this data?
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Robin Cope: bringing military fitness to Civvie Street
Features While out jogging, ex-army major Robin Cope hit on the idea of taking fitness classes out of the gym and its associations with lycra, and into the open air. Now his company is on course for an annual profit of £1m.
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Peter Schiff: buy Asia, currencies and gold
Tutorials In the second of our series, Connecticut-based economist Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital tells Jody Clarke what he's investing in now.
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Insider blows the whistle on fund management fees
Features A former fund manager has said that investors are paying far more than they realise for funds, due to hidden costs such as dealing charges, stamp duty and interest on borrowing.
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Horacio Pagani: How I made my own dream supercar
Features Baker's son Horacio Pagani has wanted to build a supercar since he was a boy in Argentina. And with the £1.1m Zonda, some say he has built the world's best.
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Funds: Why you should venture into Europe
Features Generating a decent income from your money is getting harder. So where should you look? With sterling likely to keep sliding against the euro, European equity income funds might offer an answer, says Jody Clarke.
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Higher taxes won't cut binge drinking
Merryn's Blog The Conservative party has promised to introduce a new booze tax to curb anti-social drinking. But pricier booze won't turn people, especially binge drinkers, off alcohol.
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Tom Szaky: How I turned rubbish into profits
Features College dropout Tom Szaky faced bankruptcy soon after launching his recycling company, TerraCycle. Now his business is heading for sales of $30m a year.
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How to avoid extortionate funds fees
Features British investors pay much more than their US counterparts for managed funds. Jody Clarke explains - and what you can do about it.
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