Between bookshops, galleries and long lunches with friends, Washington feels timeless — yet the distant thunder of war reminds us how closely the city lives with power.
A trip to Japan with an old friend who first taught me why Warren Buffett matters becomes a journey through temples, history and boardrooms – and a search for signs that corporate Japan may finally be changing.
Stepping away from finance, I set out to travel in search of perspective – and found it in Durham, where ancient faith, industrial memory, and resilient communities meet.
For deep and ancient reasons, we hate uncertainty and fear change. But for the long-term investor, volatility is not risk. The desire to dampen it is a costly distraction.
Crypto, gold, Trump, the Fed and Forex generate just some of what we should ignore, and we should concentrate instead on protecting our purchasing power.
The Quintas Capital 2025 EIIS Fund is backed by 300 investors. It wants to invest between €2m and €5.5m in each of about five Irish companies.
As he steps back after more than three decades in financial markets, John looks back on the crises, triumphs, and lessons that shaped his career — and the enduring truth that in investing, temperament often matters far more than theory.
The Government will closely watch the introduction of new EU tax-efficient savings and investment accounts. But the funds industry may spy a big opportunity to act as the home for the bloc's newest investors.
Private equity's push further into the realm of continuation funds increasingly looks like a Ponzi scheme. Matched with US efforts to open PE assets to retail investors, it has the potential for disaster.
From the Thirty Years’ War to Versailles and beyond, Europe’s history shows that peace is forged as much as it is fought for. However bloody the present, the lessons of Westphalia and Vienna suggest today’s turmoil will one day give way to renewal.
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