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, […]
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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
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At GMO, we have always defined a bubble as a two-standard deviation divergence of the price of any asset class above its long-term real price trend. The U.S. stock market has now been in bubble territory for a prolonged period. Sooner or later, the bubble will burst, and the price will return to its historic
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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
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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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Rufus Hound is an actor, comedian and presenter, writes York Membery. He was a regular panellist on the ITV show Celebrity Juice and won the 2013 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special. The 46-year-old, who lives in London, got engaged to actress Sally Hodgkiss in 2024. He has two teenage children with his ex-wife, Beth. What
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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
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The UK stock market is on a roll. Despite all the gloom and doom on the employment front, and an inept government in charge of the nation’s tiller, the FTSE100 Index – comprising the biggest listed companies in the country – is roaring away like a late winter fire. With inflation creeping down towards 2
Following two decades of ‘low-inflation’ in the 2000s and 2010s, inflation spiked up suddenly in 2021 after the Covid lockdowns unleashed a fiscal and monetary flood of cheap money. The ‘return’ of inflation in 2021 awakened a sudden resurgence in interest in the implications of inflation for investors. Over the past couple of years, I
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There are now as many as 739,000 people aged 16 to 24 who can’t find employment – up 100,000 in just the past year. Even the household of the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill is not immune to the difficulties. Last week he told the Treasury Select Committee: ‘I very much share your
