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...

Where did it all go?

Wall Street enjoys a Trump sugar rush

Brazil booms, but investors remain wary

White gold has lost its lustre

Will Europe up its game?

Viewpoint

■ The yellow metal is the “asset of the millennium” • Gold versus stocks

A toxic cocktail for pharma • Drugmakers’ shares slumped after RFK Jr., a notorious vaccine sceptic, was appointed as US health secretary. Matthew Partridge reports

Grubhub gives Just Eat indigestion

Another clearout at Burberry

MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips

A German view

IPO watch

Farmers take to the streets • Tax hikes have left rural businesses feeling hard done by. Emily Hohler reports

Putin raises the rhetorical heat over Ukraine

Climate summits are now pointless

News

Argentina’s radical experiment • Javier Milei won an election last year on an “anarcho-capitalist” platform, promising to take a chainsaw to the overbearing and bloated state. How’s it going? Simon Wilson reports

Rachel Reeves’ pensions raid • The government needs more cash and has run out of other places to get it

City talk

An ETF that’s like a bond • Bond funds don’t behave like individual bonds. Target maturity funds can solve that problem

I wish I knew what an index fund was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

How Musk can shrink the state

What does Trump believe?

Money can buy happiness

Liberals now stand alone

Know which fees you’re signing up for • Performance charges, and their timing, can have a bigger impact on returns than you might think

Activist watch

Short positions... Last chance for Baillie’s China fund

How to save London’s dying stockmarket • The City remains a leading global financial centre, yet the stock exchange is in long-term decline. To fix that, we must first recognise why equity markets exist and who they should serve, says Bruce Packard

Inside the exchange’s order book

End times for the DEI cult • Businesses were already rowing back on their woke agendas. Expect them to row faster, says Stuart Watkins

Keep your budget on track • There are several effective ways consumers can cut the cost of rail travel

Car finance scandal widens

Pocket money... how to become an Isa millionaire

Sacrificing your salary • Employers are likely to promote this course of action following the Budget

Is it time to buy an annuity?

News in brief... UK stocks out of favour

4 Imprint makes a strong impression • The specialist in marketing promotional products is the leader in a fragmented field

Buy now to ride the US rebound

How to find top-quality income picks in all segments of the UK stockmarket • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Iain Pyle, manager, Shires Income Trust, highlights four of his favourite stocks

Alex

The plutocrat who fell for China • Henry Keswick, a scion of the Jardine Matheson trading company, took the firm back to China...