Investments

The bull case for Melbourne

Last month, Treasury’s Population Statement predicted that Melbourne will overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city in little more than a decade. That optimistic outlook cuts against today’s prevailing narrative: that Melbourne is the capital of a failing state defined by its strained public finances, COVID hangover and an opposition obsessed with undermining its own credibility.

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Die Mittelstandsholding MBB ist Deutschlands heimlicher Börsenstar

Im Magazin “Der Nebenwerte Investor” von Traderfox finden sich regelmäßig Analysen von mir zu deutschen Nebenwerten. Das Magazin ist kostenpflichtig und wer dieses oder eine der weiteren Börsenzeitschriften von Traderfox bestellen möchte, gelangt ▶ hier zur Übersicht. Mehrwert für die Leser meines Blogs: Nach Erscheinen des Magazins darf ich meine Nebenwerte-Analysen dann auch hier veröffentlichen. Artikel

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A taxi driver in Paris charged me €2,990 instead of €29 and now my bank won’t refund!

While in Paris in January, my twin sister and I took a 20 minute taxi ride from the Musée d’Orsay to the Gare du Nord to return to London. We were told the fare would be €29.90. When I looked at my Halifax credit card statement the following month, to my horror, I found I

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Corporations are winning the stock market. Here’s a new plan for everyone else

Retail investing has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, with individual investors now accounting for a growing share of market activity. R. David McLean, Jeffrey Pontiff, and Christopher Reilly, authors of the study “Taking Sides on Return Predictability,” published in the November 2025 issue of The Journal of Financial Economics, examined how different types

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Four energy suppliers will offer low standing charge tariffs from April: Should you wait to fix your bill?

By SAM BROMLEY, MONEY & CONSUMER GUIDES WRITER Updated: 07:01 GMT, 28 February 2026 Products featured in this article are independently selected by This is Money’s specialist journalists. If you open an account using links which have an asterisk, This is Money will earn an affiliate commission. We do not allow this to affect our

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Seismic shifts that could drive private markets

In the midst of the public market run-up of the last three years, private equity has advanced, but not to the extent that investors have previously been accustomed. Off the highs of 2021, slow dealmaking has limited ‘exits’ from portfolios, fostering an attractive opportunity for liquidity-oriented strategies, such as general partner-led ‘continuation’ transactions, co-investments and

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