MoneyWeek

MoneyWeek is a weekly magazine that enables you to become a better-informed, smarter investor and enjoy the rewards of managing your money with confidence. Week-in, week-out we'll guide you through the financial world as it changes, alerting you to all the opportunities to profit and dangers to avoid, as they appear. Income strategies, rising-star companies, the best funds and trusts, clever ways to preserve your wealth during market turmoil... you will get the best ideas from the sharpest financial minds and investing professionals in Britain.

From the editor...

No fairy-tale ending for Disney

Is there a grand plan behind the chaos?

Trump bows to bond vigilantes

Central banks face stagflation

India’s swooning stocks

Viewpoint

■ Dr Copper is not as healthy as he looks

Glimmers of hope at Asos • Profitability is improving, but the struggling online retailer still looks far from healthy. Is a takeover looming? Matthew Partridge reports

A compelling read from Bloomsbury

Nike has yet to find its feet

Protests erupt in Turkey • The president has jailed his main political opponent. Emily Hohler reports

A humiliating stumble for the Trumpists

Canada heads to the polls

News

What did Covid cost us? • Five years on, we’re still counting the costs of the global coronavirus pandemic – and governments’ responses. What did we learn from the experience? Simon Wilson reports

London should lure back the banks • Many fled to Paris in the wake of Brexit, but are now in full-scale retreat. The City should move quickly

City talk

Will Trump bully the Fed? • Markets are ignoring the risk that the US president forces the central bank into reckless interest-rate cuts

I wish I knew what a yield curve was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Land-value taxes just don’t work

Thomas Piketty is still wrong

Artificial unintelligence

The right will be all right

Cashing in on a complex sector • This specialist trust has an attractive niche in lending to asset-rich biotechology companies

Activist watch

Short positions... Drax bids big for battery fund

It’s time to top up your income • Public debt is overvalued, but other fixed-interest investments now look a bargain, says Max King

Britain’s dramatic pensions revolution • Our pension system is one of the biggest in the world. Big changes are under way, says Rupert Hargreaves

Rachel Reeves is on the road to hell • The chancellor understands the economy’s structural problems, but is unlikely to solve them, says Max King

Annuities return to favour • Sales of the guaranteed-income plans have reached a ten-year high

Check yearly pension limit

News in brief... state-pension age to rise

This battered stock has life in it yet

Building on firm foundations for success • Geotechnical contractor Keller, which supports vital global infrastructure, boasts rising profits and a cheap valuation

Low debt and ample scope for growth

Best of British bargains: cash in on our stockmarket’s undervalued companies • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Michael Field, Chief Equity Market Strategist, EMEA, Morningstar, selects three favourites

Alex

Formula One’s inimitable maverick • Eddie Jordan was one of the great characters of motor sport – an adventurer with a zeal for deal-making, and a wannabe rock star. His death leaves a hole in the sport that won’t be filled, says Jane Lewis

Steve Bannon’s war against modernity

An ode to the world’s best food • Natasha Langan enjoys fine French...