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Managing your money at uni
Tips Hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds are leaving home for university for the first time. Natalie Stanton rounds up the top money-saving tips for new students.
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Absolutely no return funds
Features It's been a good year for investors overall, but not for absolute return funds. What's gone wrong? Max King reports.
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Who would buy Twitter?
Features It’s hugely popular, but the social-media platform has never turned a profit. Suitors are circling nevertheless, says Ben Judge.
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Ford Fiest ST200: the most brilliant hot hatch ever made
Features This updated ST200 model is a faster, more powerful version of the classic Ford Fiesta.
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Will Deutsche Bank turn out to be Europe’s Lehman Brothers?
Features Deutsche Bank is in big trouble. But this isn’t another a Lehman moment, says John Stepek. It’s not the start of a new crisis, it's unfinished business from the last one.
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Why you’re better off being Scandinavian than American
Features This week in MoneyWeek: the many benefits of living in Scandinavia; a student’s guide to managing undergraduate finances; and the absolute failure of absolute return funds.
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Does Dow Theory work?
Tutorials Dow Theory is one of the oldest investment strategies. Matthew Partridge explains how it works, and whether it is still worth following.
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Albert Edwards: The Chinese sword of Damocles
Features Investment guru Albert Edwards reckons the biggest worry of all for the global economy is China.
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Share tips of the week
Features MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips from the rest of the UK's financial pages.
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Investing in Scandinavia, where the winner doesn’t take it all
Tutorials Free education, high pay, excellent healthcare, generous pensions – but a great business environment and booming stockmarket too. Jonathan Compton is heading to Scandinavia.
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1990: the year Brexit became inevitable
Tutorials Britain started down the road to Brexit the day it joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Rejoice: lower oil prices are here for a while longer
Features Oil producers are meeting in an attempt to bolster prices. But don’t expect them to strike a deal. Here’s why, and what low prices mean for the rest of us.
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What the return of politics means for your money
Features After years of being left to do their own thing, markets are back at the mercy of politicians. John Stepek explains why politics matters again, and what you must do.
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The benefits of all-inclusive fund management fees
Features Fund management fees should include everything, says Merryn Somerset Webb. All costs, commissions, research and trading costs. It would increase competition and give us more to retire on.
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Don’t let financial repression crush you and your investments
Features Low interest rates, which aim to stimulate investment, are having the opposite effect and depressing returns for investors. But there are still opportunities out there, says John Stepek.
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Globalisation in retreat
Features World trade is stagnating and protectionist populism seems to be on the rise. Is this the end for globalisation? Alex Rankine reports.
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Share tips of the week
Features MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips from the rest of the UK's financial pages.
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JK Rowling’s expensive mistake
Features Harry Potter author JK Rowling fell for the dream of owning a yacht hook, line and sinker.
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Richard Rainwater: the world’s greatest investors
Features Richard Rainwater's strategy was to spot major technological or economic changes and profit from them, says Matthew Partridge.
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If you’d invested in: Sound Energy and Vivint Solar
Features Sound Energy is a London-based gas exploration and production company, whose shares have risen by over 500% in the past 12 months.
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Multi-million-pound properties on the market
Features From a private island in the Florida Keys with a marina and beach to a 15th-century villa in Lucca, Tuscany.
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Two takeover targets to tuck away
Opinion Seeking out potential takeover targets can be a profitable strategy. Professional investor Philippe Lecoq tips two.
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Commercial real estate braced for global slowdown
Features The latest property monitoring report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors points to a slowdown in commercial real estate. Sarah Moore explains.
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Cheap ways to ride the mega-trends
Features David C Stevenson looks at the best investment trusts to invest in the mega-trends of the future.
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Three types of wine fraud
Features When rare wine sells for thousands of pounds a bottle, it's not just the connoisseurs that take note, says Chris Carter.
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Nick Train: Don’t entrust your money to the clever-clogs
Tutorials Dull plodding is what wins the race in the end. Merryn Somerset Webb talks to Nick Train of Finsbury Growth & Income Trust.
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A headstart for my MoneyWeek disciples
Features The 2014 Folding Hill is “on the water” as I write, due to arrive in early October, says Matthew Jukes. Get it before it sells out.
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Mercedes’ superlative load-lugger
Features Few cars fulfil such duties more perfectly than the Mercedes E-class Estate, especially this updated model.
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This is a major turning point for central banks – here’s how to profit
Features Central banks finally seem to have decided it’s time for governments to do some serious “fiscal stimulus”. John Stepek explains what that means, and how you should play it.
