Full coverage: investing

Even as financial markets grow more competitive and skill-based, luck—not talent—has an outsized role in shaping investment outcomes. From Charlie Munger’s wisdom to Michael Mauboussin’s insights, the path to long-term success may depend more on patience than prediction.

London has long been dominant in fintech. Politicians, regulators, founders, and stakeholders have been plotting The City's plans to retain its leadership position.

Venture capital syndicate CircleRock is now five years old. It has backed start-ups like Yonder, Nory and Platform Golf but has ambitions to do a lot more.

Taylor Wessing partners Dannie Hanna and Paul Thorpe on the impact that tariffs and conflict are having on deals in Ireland, the surge in defence spending, and the rise in overseas PE.

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde believes Europeans are "much less wealthy than they could be". The high concentration of savings and pensions need to be invested.

Kevin Canning, the managing director of Quintas, says his EIIS fund plans to invest in up to six Irish SMEs. It has already identified a childcare business to back.

The London firm has around £11bn in assets under management. Partner Malcolm Coffin and assistant director David Collins talk about the private-equity "snowball effect" taking hold in Ireland.

The lesson from Haghani’s trading game and my friend’s 2016 bet is clear. Thinking of the stock market as a series of binary bets to which we can attach probabilities is unhelpful - and potentially costly. Crucially, even knowing the outcome of a given event might cost us money. 

The Highland Europe co-founder speaks about growing up in Dublin, the Apple windfall, and why other countries don't follow Ireland's low-tax model.

Fawad Tariq-Khan once led SHUAA Capital, the oldest investment bank in the Middle East. Born in Galway he is now investing in Cork-based Quintas using his investment firm Exnite.