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Are employers ducking their responsibilities over defined-benefits schemes?
Features Firms may be using the insolvency system to renege on the pension promises they’ve made to members of defined-benefit pension schemes.
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How to save money when buying flights
Tips Everybody knows flying is expensive, says Ruth Jackson. But how expensive can sometimes be up to you.
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Alan Greenspan: bearish on global growth
Features Inflation is a threat to global growth, reckons former Fed chief Alan Greenspan.
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An emerging market investment trust that goes where others fear to tread
Features Many emerging market funds ignore “frontier” markets completely. But there are great opportunities in these less developed countries and companies, says Max King.
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If you'd invested in: Creightons and Corero Network Security
Features Creightons, maker of toiletries and fragrances, has rewarded investors, while while Corero Network Security had disappointed them.
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LVMH is back in fashion
Features LVMH, the luxury goods bellwether, reported strong sales. But are investors too optimistic about the outlook? Ben Judge reports.
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Tesco still has plenty to prove
Features Tesco announced a solid set of results this month. But investors are still worried about its takeover of food wholesaler Booker.
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The UK election is about far more than just Brexit
Features Most of the talk about the election is of what the result will mean for Brexit. But there’s much more for voters to worry about than that, says John Stepek.
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The real reason to worry about Turkey
Analysis There are lots of things to be frightened of in the world of finance. But Turkey should probably be top of the list, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Should landlords turn to offset mortgages?
Features Could an offset mortgage be the solution for beleaguered landlords looking to boost their cash flow? Emma Lunn investigates.
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Jerome Kohlberg Jr: The world’s greatest investors
Features Jerome Kohlberg Jr started out focusing on “bootstrap” deals, whereby he’d set up a shell company to buy a firm from a retiring owner.
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Money makers: A utopia in Edinburgh
Tips Josh Littlejohn set up a social enterprise selling sandwiches for the homeless. Now he's out to build them a village.
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Universal basic income: Venture capital for the people
Features The idea of a paying everyone a universal basic income is gaining ground. Could it work? Stuart Watkins reports.
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Why it pays to go passive
Tutorials Index provider S&P releases an annual “scorecard” rating how active funds compare to passive funds, says John Stepek. This year was worse than usual.
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Erdogan recreates Turkish sultanate
Features Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly won reforms which will all but recreate Turkey as a sultanate.
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How to choose a robo-adviser
Features Many of us haven’t got the time, knowledge or the disposition to pick great funds on a regular basis. The answer could be to look at the fast-growing “robo-advice” sector.
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Trump’s Cuban missile crisis
Features The Trump administration is attempting a balancing act on North Korea – and the stakes couldn't be higher.
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Share tips of the week
Features MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s best share tips from the rest of the UK's financial press.
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Betting on politics: Macron's eyes election victory
Features This French election has proven especially hard to call, says Matthew Partridge. But Emmanuel Macron is edging out in front.
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A cutesy guide to investing
Features Book review: Little Wins, The Huge Power Of Thinking Like A ToddlerA book to skim through and pick up a few ideas on investing.
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Investors panic over French election
Features Investors have been confronted with a new and alarming possibility in the French presidential election: a run-off between the far left and the far right.
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The dark side of the internet revolution
Features Book review: Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, And Amazon Cornered Culture And Undermined DemocracyTaplin makes an effective argument to rein in the oligarchic dreams of a few billionaires.
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Greece’s debt saga grinds on
Features This latest chapter in Greek debt saga should buy Greece time until 2018, but it’s a fudge that won’t resolve the matter.
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Populist challengers are as bad as the elite
Features Book review: Rebel: How To Overthrow The Emerging OligarchyHeady but standard libertarian fare from Douglas Carswell, says Matthew Partridge.
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Why May took the plunge
Features The prime minister always said she wouldn't call a snap election. So, what changed?
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Another side to Dubai
Features Dubai is famous for its skyscrapers and bright lights. But as Chris Carter finds out, there is another side to this intriguing city in the Middle East.
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A currency war averted
Features Donald Trump had threatened to brand China a currency manipulator, but has now retreated from that position.
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US stocks lose faith in the Trump bump
Features US stocks hit new records in March, but have drifted downwards since then as more and more investors have decided that Trump looks both capricious and ineffectual.
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This week in MoneyWeek: Buy British
Features In MoneyWeek magazine this week: it’s time to buy British stocks; how to choose a “robo adviser”, and would a universal basic income work?
