Socially responsible investing: who’s getting the benefit?Ethical investment is now big business, but are investors doing well out of doing good?Tue Jun 13 2017 - 06:00
Stocktake: Investors await AIB’s market returnAIB more of a pure play on Ireland than Bank of Ireland as 40% of latter’s loans are in UKTue Jun 06 2017 - 06:30
Amazon’s wild ride offers lessons for investorsAn outlay of $1,000 on the company’s shares in 1997 would net you about $1m todayTue Jun 06 2017 - 06:00
The Trump trade is deadStocktake: US stocks remain high in spite of Trump, and riding the bitcoin bubbleTue May 30 2017 - 06:30
Should investors be worried about a lack of trading fear?Stocktake: If calm indicates complacency, prices may be more vulnerable than presumedTue May 30 2017 - 06:00
Fund managers pile into Europe, but is it all an illusion?StockTake: Europe is good value in contrast to US, but don’t rule out a reversal of fortuneTue May 23 2017 - 06:30
Investors betting that it’s Europe’s turn to shineAmerican equity funds experienced $22.2bn in outflows recentlyTue May 23 2017 - 06:00
Markets shrug as Trump sacks FBI director ComeyStocktake: markets snooze; Gundlach trolls the media; Snap shareholders feel the pinchTue May 16 2017 - 06:30
Psychology of investors who tend to trade too muchResearch suggests thrill-seeking and youth are closely linked to excessive stock tradingTue May 16 2017 - 06:00
Hype generator: Will Tesla become the next Apple?Stocktake: car maker is sounding more like a cult, with Elon Musk as its hubristic leaderTue May 09 2017 - 06:30
Investing secrets of the dumb moneyProinsias O’Mahony on the pitfalls to which the ordinary investor are all too proneTue May 09 2017 - 06:00
Navigating earnings season: six tips for investorsStocktake: Learn why it’s profitable to buy shares in female- or foreign-led firmsTue May 02 2017 - 07:00
Markets sceptical over Trump’s detail-free tax plansStocktake: Don’t sell in May and go away – study says investors should sit tightTue May 02 2017 - 06:30
Stocktake: UK election may not be ‘soft Brexit’ game-changerAssuming stronger May means ‘soft Brexit’ is unwise given her prior support for ‘hard Brexit’Tue Apr 25 2017 - 06:30
Global impact of US’s incredible shrinking stock marketMore and more companies are opting to fund their growth via private marketsTue Apr 25 2017 - 06:00
United Airlines should learn the value of a sincere apologyStocktake: Share prices would have suffered less if Oscar Munoz had read the ‘Saving Face’ reportThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:41
Stock pickers face scrapheap as investors turn to algorithmsActively managed funds are losing out to computerised investment strategiesTue Apr 18 2017 - 06:00
Trading truisms and time-tested investment adagesMany memorable one-liners have emerged from Wall Street, offering intriguing insights into the approaches of both long-term investors and short-term tradersTue Apr 11 2017 - 07:18
Why do beautiful Chinese market analysts do better?Stocktake: Best-looking analysts get more sensitive information from management – studyTue Apr 11 2017 - 06:30
Milestones galore for soaring AmazonStocktake: Merrill Lynch research shows it’s time for investors to hold toughTue Apr 04 2017 - 06:30
Computer says . . . invest: the robo-advisers are comingFees are cheap but will Irish investors be tempted by computer-based advice?Tue Apr 04 2017 - 06:00
Buy high, say fund managers in new surveyStocktake: Belated sell-off for stocks, worries about ‘President’ Le Pen and men v womenTue Mar 28 2017 - 06:30
Looking for value in global stock marketsEurope and emerging markets look like better bets over the next decadeTue Mar 28 2017 - 05:52
Should investors ignore the bubble-watchers?A Harvard study reveals clues to help investors avoid stock-market crashesTue Mar 21 2017 - 06:38
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman learns a $4bn lessonStocktake: betting the farm is always dumb – whether you make a bundle or lose the lotTue Mar 21 2017 - 06:30
President Le Pen: should investors be worried?An advancing equity market does not necessarily mean investors are not nervousTue Mar 14 2017 - 06:33
What investors can learn from Snap’s flotationStocktake: Being patient can pay off even when looking at the hottest new stocksTue Mar 14 2017 - 06:30
StockTake: Bull market refuses to dipThis rally is refusing to retreat, which must be torture for those on the sidelinesTue Mar 07 2017 - 06:30
US bull market celebrates its eighth birthdaySecond-longest advance in market history shows no signs of ending any time soonMon Mar 06 2017 - 07:00
Are investors hurt by corporate focus on short-term returns?McKinsey report finds short-termism in US costs millions of jobs and hampers growthTue Feb 28 2017 - 07:00
Stocktake: Investors should not fear another Black MondayStocktake: A cool look at overbought markets and cracks in the global rallyTue Feb 28 2017 - 06:30
Snapchat parent’s IPO valuation not a pretty pictureNo major flotation in recent decades has looked remotely as expensive as Snap’sTue Feb 21 2017 - 06:30
It’s all coming out now about closet trackersStocktake: Funds sold as actively managed may actually closely follow benchmarksTue Feb 21 2017 - 06:30
Bullish investors ignoring dark ‘shadows’Stocktake: Worrying about Trump, don’t believe the hype and snapping up the wrong ‘Snapchat’Tue Feb 14 2017 - 06:30
Most stocks make for lousy bets, new research showsStudy over last 90 years finds the majority of stocks underperform risk-free bondsTue Feb 14 2017 - 05:35
Trump card: are stock markets having second thoughts?Is Wall Street’s three-month honeymoon with Donald Trump coming to an end?Tue Feb 07 2017 - 07:00
Stocks’ new streetlight: 'Trump on, Trump off'StockTake: Trumponomics sparked a big bounce, but concerns have curtailed rallyTue Feb 07 2017 - 06:30
Volatility in the markets not the monster many make it out to beSense of perspective required to put ‘big, scary numbers into context’Tue Jan 31 2017 - 06:00
Don’t read too much into the political meaning of rising stock pricesStocktake: Even if Trump’s presidency proves unexpectedly successful, investors are likely to witness a bear market during his tenureTue Jan 31 2017 - 06:00
Pricy stock market can get pricierStocktake: The Trump factor, presidential tweets and Madoff’s hot chocolate monopolyTue Jan 24 2017 - 06:30
Does Trump pose a threat to complacent markets?Investors respond rapidly to incoming US president’s unpredictable rhetoric and policyTue Jan 24 2017 - 06:30
Stocktake: FTSE rally no cause for patriotic fervourBritish investors would have made more money if they had invested almost anywhere elseTue Jan 17 2017 - 07:56
Is it time to bet on an earnings upturn in Europe?Both Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch are making optimistic noises for 2017Tue Jan 17 2017 - 07:19
A friendship of opposites that changed our view of human thinkingDaniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky paved the way for behavioural financeTue Jan 10 2017 - 08:04
Ignore warnings about Trump inauguration effect on marketStockTake: ‘Bull market checklist’ suggests any decline unlikely to be decisiveTue Jan 10 2017 - 05:00
What’s in store for investors in 2017?Strategists are quite bullish, favouring US over Europe, but should investors care?Tue Jan 03 2017 - 07:00
S&P 500 eyes ninth year of gainsStocktake: Investor optimism, emerging markets, political fears and a quiet holiday periodTue Jan 03 2017 - 06:30
From market meltdown to melt-up: lessons from 2016How unrealised fear of a global recession has given way to renewed hope for 2017Tue Dec 20 2016 - 06:33
Bullish sentiment risks becoming a headwindStocktake: Trump’s election victory has decisively altered market expectations in USTue Dec 20 2016 - 06:30
Where are the female fund managers?Just one in nine fund managers in Ireland is a woman, and the problem is getting worse worldwideTue Dec 13 2016 - 05:55
