03 September 2025

Britain’s Borrowing Bind: Why Gilt Yields Refuse to Fall

The UK now holds the uncomfortable distinction of having the highest long-term borrowing costs among G7 nations. Last week, 30-year gilt yields nudged above 5.6%, levels not seen since 1998. Even the 10-year gilt yield, the market's benchmark, remains the highest in the group, signalling deeper structural and cyclical concerns.

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27 August 2025

Half of Gen X Faces a Pension Squeeze, and Women Fare the Worst

For Generation X, retirement planning has often been described as a squeeze, and with good reason. Born between 1965 and 1980, Gen Xers sit awkwardly between two more fortunate cohorts: Baby Boomers, who largely benefited from generous defined benefit pensions, and Millennials, who have at least caught the tailwind of automatic workplace enrolment. Gen X, by contrast, missed out on both.

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20 August 2025

Mind Over Market: How Traders Maintain Discipline in Challenging Times

Markets have a way of testing more than just strategies (as many traders can testify). They test patience, resilience, and above all, mindset. For traders and investors alike, it’s not always the volatility in prices that matters most - it’s the volatility in emotions. When uncertainty rises, mindset becomes the thin line between survival and self-sabotage.

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14 August 2025

UK Trading in 2025: Adapt or Get Left Behind

A trader in 2020 could have made a killing riding the wave of meme stocks. The market was buzzing with retail enthusiasm, social media hype, and stimulus-fuelled volatility. But by 2023, the magic had faded, and the same buy-and-hold approach that worked in the chaos now delivered nothing but flat returns.

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06 August 2025

European Banks: From Crisis Survivors to Market Leaders

European bank shares have hit their highest levels since 2008 - a milestone that reflects more than just a recovery. This surge signals a transformation in one of the continent’s most beleaguered sectors, reshaping the narrative from post-crisis fragility to renewed resilience.

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30 July 2025

The 18-Year Investment Cycle: Are We Approaching the Next Shock?

In the vast, noisy world of market predictions, few frameworks have persisted as stubbornly - and as eerily accurately - as the 18-year investment cycle. It’s a rhythm of boom and bust that has shaped global economies for more than a century, linking land values, credit expansion, and investor psychology into a pattern that often culminates in crisis.

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