Central Banks at Risk of Breaking Economies, Dario Perkins Warns
Are we getting to the point where central banks are starting to break economies?Dario Perkins, Managing Director on the Global Macro team at TS Lombard, asks that question in his conversation this wee...
12 Mai 202343min
Why Your Portfolio Needs Investment Trusts
Investment trusts are special, says Simon Elliott, client director at J.P. Morgan Investment Trusts. They have a strong history of outperforming other types of investment vehicles. They provide pools ...
5 Mai 202342min
Is the Age of Growth in the UK Really Over?
Dambisa Moyo is an economist and board member of Chevron and 3M. She’s also author of the 2018 book Edge of Chaos. In this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money, Moyo and host Merryn Somerset Webb disc...
28 Apr 202343min
Fund Manager Says There’s an Easy Way to Make 3% More
There’s not much you can do right now to dramatically improve your personal finances. But there’s at least one thing you can get on top of: cash savings accounts. You can now get 3 or 4% a year on you...
21 Apr 20231h
How to Get a 7% Return Without Buying Risky Equities
During the Panic of 1907, J.P. Morgan came up with a clever plan to slow the ongoing bank run. He told his tellers to count all the money twice before handing it over. The more time paying out the cas...
14 Apr 202348min
Capital Had Its Day. Now It’s Labor’s Turn, Troy’s Lyon Says
Sebastian Lyon says he’d been expecting inflation to rise for a long time. So when prices began to tick up, his firm was ready. Now the founder and chief investment officer of Troy Asset Management sa...
31 Mar 202326min
Why You Should Stop Selling UK Equities
British pension funds used to have up to 55% of their assets in UK equities. That might have been too much. Now it’s more like 5% (and 70% in US equities). That might be too little. Why? Because those...
24 Mar 202344min
Why UK Mortgage Rates Aren’t as High as You Think
In an earlier episode of Merryn Talks Money, reporter Neil Callanan joined the podcast to talk house prices. It’s fair to say his outlook for the UK housing market was not optimistic. It is, he said,...
17 Mar 202331min
