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-in-chief...

The ugly face of the beautiful game

US stocks soldier on through adversity

Investors shrug as debt milestone passed

Scandal rocks Turkish stocks

The sun sets on private equity

Viewpoint

■ Time to stoke house prices

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

Prelude to a pip-squeaking squeeze • Andy Burnham has inspiring words for the faithful and a bill for the middle class. Emily Hohler reports

Reheated Help to Buy scheme is a pipedream

The way we live now... the professional mourners for hire

News

Britain’s productivity puzzle – solved? • It turns out that the UK’s unusually poor performance in terms of output per hour worked may not have been all it seemed. So just what is the situation and why does it matter? Simon Wilson reports

Diesel crisis will expose our weakness • We’ll pay the price for 20 years of deindustrialisation if Donald Trump bans exports

City talk

Reducing risk in our ETF strategy • Our model portfolio is doing well enough, but it’s time to trim a laggard and tidy up excess cash

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Taiwan prepares to surrender

AI doomers are not plausible

Gordon Brown’s second act

Britain’s energy cliff edge

Outstripped by inflation • An underwhelming five-year return means Personal Assets must show it can still deliver

Get free tickets for the AIC

Short positions… Chrysalis sells Klarna stake

Go fishing for Britain’s tiddlers • The Aim junior market has been in the doldrums for years. That could be about to change, says David Prosser

How a Dutch start-up rose to rule the world • When ASML started out, it entered a competitive market with no customers and struggled to survive. It has now built an almost unassailable position in a leading global industry. Jamie Ward reports

Government bonds are a buy • The bears’ fears of inflation and public debt are overdone, says Max King

Catch the arms-spending wave • Norwegian arms maker Kongsberg is a key beneficiary of rising defence spending by governments

Kicking the tyres... earnings on the rise

Sole traders: consider a Sipp • The self-employed missed out in pension reforms, but it’s not all bad news

Brace yourself for digital upheaval

Petty cash... are you safe from cyber attacks?

How to profit from electrification, precious metals and the space economy • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Asad Farid, portfolio manager at J. Safra Sarasin

CLASSIC Alex

Turmoil in the House of Liechtenstein • Rebel royals are up in arms against the de facto head of the principality’s ruling family over reforms that threaten to erode their wealth and power. Jane Lewis reports

Howard Buffett takes the chair at Berkshire Hathaway

Discover the authentic Yucatán • Louise Okafor gets a grounding in Mayan culture at Chablé Yucatán in Mexico

A beautiful grand tourer • The new Beneteau GT50 is built for weekend entertaining, says Alex Smith

Wine of the week: a toast to the wonderful fizz of South...