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LONDON: In the days of imperial heavy-handedness, when Britain ruled the waves and waived the rules whenever it suited its interests, London’s favored technique for dealing with those who dared challenge its global hegemony was to “send a gunboat.” In the 21st century, for the militarily impotent, postcolonial state still clinging to delusions of imperial grandeur that Britain

LONDON: In the days of imperial heavy-handedness, when Britain ruled the waves and waived the rules whenever it suited its interests, London’s favored technique for dealing with those who dared challenge its global hegemony was to “send a gunboat.” In the 21st century, for the militarily impotent, postcolonial state still clinging to delusions of imperial grandeur that Britain

Environmental risks to our future are very real. There are four reasons to be optimistic, but all will have long-term consequences for the economy and financial markets, says Jonathan Compton

We’ve got used to a world without war between major powers, but that era is coming to an end as Russia threatens Ukraine and China eyes Taiwan. Buy defence stocks while they’re cheap, says Jonathan Compton

MoneyWeek writers’ top tips for 2022 include an online electrical goods retailer, an Indonesian car dealership and a gold miner.

Data from real estate adviser CBRE showed that vacant UK logistics space has fallen to 7.1 million sq ft in the three months to 30 September of this year,

By Steve Farrell2021-04-16T11:41:00+01:00 Pure online retail accounted for the largest proportion of take-up at 48.2% Logistics space under offer soared to record levels at the end of quarter one of this year, driven primarily by demand from pure online retail. Some 16 million sq ft across 55 units was under offer, compared with 11.5 million sq ft across 23 units at the end of quarter one of 2020, according to data from real estate advisor CBRE, which tracks warehouses over 100,000 sq ft. The...

© Getty Images/iStockphoto If you want to cut the risk in your portfolio, what should you do? Look at the recent discussion over how defined benefit (DB) pension schemes should be funded, and you’ll get a good sense of the group-think on the topic. As far as most people – and the UK government – are concerned, if you want to “de-risk” so as to be sure of meeting your long-term pension obligations, you have to shift into bonds, and in the UK, into gilts. That made sense when you could...

Liza Helps investigates. It has been a tumultuous year and what we envisioned only a short six months ago is nothing like our reality now. Back in January and February, the prospects looked promising after the stop/start 2019 plagued with political uncertainty, then the coronavirus struck, and the country was plunged in to lockdown – it looked a bit grim. But the pandemic has turbo charged the supply chain industry – the question is: is this the new normal? “Across the board, property con...

Richard Beddard The trouble with providing a tip for 2021 is that I have no idea what the defining events of the year will be, just as I had no idea what would characterise 2020.  Bottom-up investors, those who study businesses rather than themes and trends, must necessarily take a longer-term perspective because it takes longer than a year for corporate strategies to play out and for traders to take notice. I give my investments ten years at least, but one that might deliver more quickly is ...