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By HAMISH MCRAE Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2026 On to 11,000 or 12,000 or beyond? It has been a blistering ascent, with the FTSE100 up nearly 10 per cent this year, a greater gain than any other major share index. Let’s celebrate that, while recognising it as a long-overdue correction after years of undervaluation. […]

By PATRICK TOOHER, CONSULTANT CITY EDITOR Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2026 Nationwide has pumped more than £1 billion into Virgin Money’s Clydesdale Bank to prop up the struggling Scottish lender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The huge injection is far higher than the £650 million previously reported, and comes as Britain’s biggest building society

“Eine Aktie hat nur dann richtiges Potenzial, wenn die meisten denken, dass sie gar kein Potenzial hat.” (Ken Fisher)

By CALUM MUIRHEAD, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2026 US raider Boaz Weinstein, bane of the UK’s investment trust sector, is to get a taste of his own medicine after another activist investor unveiled plans to install one of its directors on the boards of his funds. Last month,

By PATRICK TOOHER, CONSULTANT CITY EDITOR Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2026 Thames Water is on course to dump more raw sewage into its polluted rivers than at any time this decade, according to the stricken supplier’s own data. The revelation comes as public anger about the state of the privatised water industry reaches boiling

By JEFF PRESTRIDGE, MONEY EDITOR AT LARGE Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2026 Investment fund Jupiter UK Dynamic Equity has undergone a transformation in the past 16 months. A new manager has been installed and the fund’s name has changed from Jupiter UK Special Situations. Although it’s still early days, the changes have been for

Dependable earnings growth is a core characteristic of the high-quality listed infrastructure companies in which we invest. Throughout past cycles we have seen consistent, solid returns. Given the earnings profile, operating models and potential for inflation protection that underpin these companies’ assets, we expect this to continue. Moreover, we see sustained annual returns of CPI

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In a recent email to his Wall Street Journal readers, Jason Zweig posed multiple-choice questions. The answers would provide investors with lessons. The first started with a lead-in, asking readers to remember all those headlines about the US stock market being super concentrated in the ‘Magnificent Seven’, then he posed the question, “The S&P 500