Money & Markets
Personal finance and investing in plain English
What Is a Small-Cap Company? Why Size Changes Everything
This post is drawn from The Little Book of Small-Caps by Cameron Oliver. Republished with permission. Small-cap companies have long…
The ISA: Britain’s Best Tax Break, Used Properly
You’ve probably heard that ISAs are a good idea. Here’s what they actually do, what the government keeps changing about…
How Share Prices Get Manipulated (and Why You’re Last to Know)
In which we learn how the men in dark glasses made millions from trash talk, that you can’t trust everything…
If you do not know the rules, do not play the market
Retail investors do not need to be faster than the market. They need to be harder to fool. Most investment…
Big Bang Changed the City, Not Share Ownership
On 27 October 1986, the City of London held its breath, flipped a switch, and changed forever. They called it…
What is the FTSE 100?
The FTSE 100 is the index most people mean when they say the stock market in Britain. It tracks the…
What is a dividend?
A dividend is the share of a company’s profits that it hands back to its shareholders in cash. You own…
Why do share prices go up and down?
Share prices move every second of every trading day, and most of the movement looks like noise. Behind the noise…
What is a share? The plain English version
A share is the smallest possible slice of ownership in a company. That is the whole idea. If you buy…