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...

Game’s up for Hollywood

Fed brings out the punch bowl...

... while inflation precludes UK rate cuts

The peculiar woes of the krone

India’s stock mania spreads

Viewpoint

■ Fed puts a rocket under the yellow metal

A double helping of chips? • Qualcomm could acquire its semiconductor rival Intel. But securing a deal would not be straightforward. Matthew Partridge reports

A new alliance to invest in AI

Next bucks the high-street trend

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

A German view

IPO watch

Labour tries to cheer up • The financial black hole turned out to be a mirage. Matthew Partridge reports

Sri Lanka seeks a political reset

Betting on politics

News

The way we live now... election results are written in the stars

How to get better politicians • The squabble about who paid for the PM’s clobber demeans the office. There’s a simple solution: we must pay more for a better politics. Simon Wilson reports

Labour sleaze matters • We’ve come to expect it from our politicians, but when the government is socialist, cronyism is all the more dangerous

City talk

A fairer deal for trusts • New rules on how funds report costs should ditch the idea that investors only need to look at one number

I wish I knew what a revenue reserve was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Why trusts are due a rerating • Heavy-handed rules governing fees, which put investment companies at a disadvantage, are to go

Activist watch

Short positions... Vanguard gives the power back

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Can Starmer fix the state?

Bring back Merrie England

How free-gear Keir will fail

The doom monster is dangerous

Tap into the planet’s top commodity • The world faces major long-term water-supply issues. Yet there is a solution at hand – and investors can profit from it, says David J. Stevenson

Focus on the supply side • Boosting potential economic output through public investment is crucial, says David C. Stevenson

How to find the advice you need • There are several different kinds of services to help you with your money. Here are the key ones

Pocket money... your local shop is a rip-off

Time to switch provider • Stakeholder pensions no longer look worth holding, so seek alternatives

Abolition of LTA appears on track

News in brief... state pension set to rise

Cashing in on currencies • Finseta has established a foothold in the upper echelons of the market for international payments

Profitable growth in a valuable niche

Top trusts offer growth at a discount • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Alastair Laing, CEO and co-manager, Capital Gearing Asset Management, selects three stocks

Alex

The Danish tycoon reshaping Britain • Anders Holch Povlsen has snapped up land in the Highlands and returned it to a wilderness, and plans to transform a historic department store in Edinburgh. Can he also revive Topshop? Jane Lewis reports

The man who...